Why Before How

by Bill Mellinger, Crestline First Baptist Church, https://www.crestlinefbc.com/ When we started our transition from a program-based model for ministry to a cell model, I did not use the term cell. There were a number of reasons for this including the fact that some...

Start wth the Why

by Joel Comiskey Simon Sinek, popular speaker and author, was considered a “successful” businessman. Like so many, he began to focus on what he was selling and then trying to figure out how to sell it. Yet, he realized he was missing why he was selling the...

Connecting the Sermon with the Cell Lessson

by Robert Lay, Cell Church Ministry Brazil For one thousand and seven hundred years we have primarily preached the gospel to a crowd of listeners. Usually, there was no structure in place to check if the listeners were living the message out in everyday life. In the...

The Parts of the Cell Lesson

by Mario Vega, https://www.elim.org.sv/ The lesson guide for the cells in Elim is available for the leaders at the beginning of each quarter. It is a handy booklet that contains the thirteen lessons that develop a study of the books of the New Testament verse by...

Connecting Sunday Preaching with the Cell

By Robert Gutierrez, Iglesia Bautista Torre Fuerte In our church we have decided to connect the Sunday preaching to our Small Groups for one primary reason: As individuals our hearing/ listening capacity is very poor, so even if a person is a “good...

Principles for Dynamic Lessons

by Ernesto Humeniuk, www.oikoslatino.org What not to do 1. Don’t discuss the sermon. Although cells should follow the same theme of the Sunday sermon, the purpose of the meeting should not be a discussion of the sermon. Why? Because hopefully there will be...