By Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv The church’s great goal as it gathers in homes is to make disciples who, in turn, make other disciples. This goes beyond evangelism. Every disciple is someone who has been evangelized, but not everyone who has been evangelized is a...
by Timo Barbosa, pastor at Miller Memorial Church – Johnstown, OH What if the first step into ministry at your church wasn’t signing up to serve, but joining a small group? In Mark 3:14, we discover Jesus’ intentional approach to developing disciples: He appointed the...
by Steve Cordle, Executive Director, The River Network International (trni.org) From time to time I ask congregations, “Raise your hand if you came to Christ through the influence or witness of a friend or family member.” Nearly 90% of the hands go up. This shows...
By Rob Campbell, Executive Director, Africa Renewal Ministries (www.africarenewal.org) Why holistic small groups form the soil where discipleship, pastoral care, and spiritual gifts grow. In the early days of the cell movement, some leaders assumed the goal was to...
By Joel Comiskey, Making Cell Groups Work Years ago, on an email forum called cellchurchtalk, my friend Rick Diefenderfer declared with godly fervor that a pure cell church has no programs. None, nada, nothing. No choir, no Sunday school, no new believer’s class, not...
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