Active Learning

by Jeff Tunnell Cell lessons give the teaching/preaching ministry of the church a most blessed opportunity to multiply the effectiveness of message content. Every minister in the pulpit should know that about 80% of what is transmitted verbally will be lost in the...

Accountability–an Essential Ingredient

by Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org “Will this be on the test?” All teachers have heard this question from their students. Translated, it means “Can I safely ignore this part of the lesson?” After all, if it’s not going to be on the test, why bother with it? The...

The Priority of Evangelism in the Cell Lesson

by Mario Vega, https://www.elim.org.sv/ Since our guide doesn’t follow the Sunday sermon (because of the reasons I explained in last week’s blog) the contents of our lessons mainly focus on helping our guests understand the way of salvation. For this reason, we...

Cell-Based Sermon Application

by Randall Neighbour Sorry, but lead pastors write some of the worst cell guides ever! For a number of months, I invited every pastor who called our ministry to send me a recent cell guide and I offered to review it for him. With only a few exceptions, they were all...

The Cell Guide: What we Do

by Ernesto Humeniuk, www.oikoslatino.org I don’t like to call the cell guide a “lesson” because it gives the idea that the leader is teaching a class, and we all know that the best cell leaders are not teachers. In fact, the best cell leaders only...

Passionate Application

  by Bill Mellinger, Crestline First Baptist Church, https://www.crestlinefbc.com/ I attended a study group for some time that met each week to read through some material in a study book and answer questions. Usually, one person would answer a question and then...