Southern Baptist Cell Church Planting

Last Friday through Sunday I spoke to 275 Southern Baptist Spanish pastors and leaders at a two-day cell church conference near Miami, Florida. It was the first of its kind among the Southern Baptist of Florida. Even many of the high-level directors attended the...

Don’t Dump….Delegate!

There’s a great difference between dumping and delegating. Dr. Roger Fritz wrote, “Dumping is indiscriminate. It’s done for expedience, taking no account of the strengths and weaknesses of the person who is supposed to do the work. In its worst form,...

How Elim Survived A Major Crisis

When I visited the Elim Church in San Salvador for the first time in 1996, the church was going through a major crisis (Elim is the second largest church in the world). The founding pastor had divorced his wife, run off with another woman, and was mismanaging the...

Cell Strength in Crisis

In Wednesday’s blog, I mentioned the article “Sharing Our Lives in Difficult Times” (March 2007) writen by Mike Messerli, pastor of small group ministries at at a church in Texas. You’ll remember that the senior pastor at his church fell into sin and many...

Variety and cells

  By Steve Cordle   When was the last time your group left the living room and did an outreach project? Or enjoyed a social event – or spent the whole group time praying? If it’s been recently, my guess is that your group feels healthy and vibrant....