Prepare Your Hearts, Not Your Notes

by Jim Egli, jimegli.com What makes small groups grow? I’ve surveyed over 4000 small group leaders in more than 300 churches to discover the answer. The most surprising discovery so far is that there is zero correlation between how much time leaders spend preparing...

Stay Strong

by Jeff Tunnell For quite a while I used a daily food supplement that was full of highly nutritional components.  It was also expensive.  I approached my health coach and posed this question, “How can I really be certain that this is a benefit to my health and that it...

The Leader’s Spiritual Life

by Joel Comiskey Eighteen years have passed since I researched why some leaders were able to lead their small groups to multiplication and why others were not. To make sure the statistics were accurate, 700 leaders filled out the questionnaire in eight countries.  I...

Prayer in leadership

by Mario Vega, https://www.elim.org.sv/ Something that I repeatedly express to leaders is that cell ministry is not about a human idea or an effective technique to increase the number of attendees to a congregation. It is the way God designed his church and how it is...

Prayer is the Work of Ministry

By Rob Campbell, www.cypresscreekchurch.com Prayer is the work of ministry. When we see fruit from the ministry it is always rooted in prayer. In the Old Testament, watchmen were placed on the city’s wall for protection as an early alert signal for invading...