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- CELL GROUP DESIGN AND EVANGELISM/CHURCH GROWTH – Joel Comiskey Group
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- 5 Shifts Your Church Must Make to Grow Small Groups
- Ten Ways to Grow a Small Group
The commitment means that you will try to be there each time the group meets. This is the intentional part of developing meaningful relationships which take time and commitment.
CELL GROUP DESIGN AND EVANGELISM/CHURCH GROWTH – Joel Comiskey Group
Some groups will have childcare or have children involved in the meetings in some fashion. Many groups will not involve children making it necessary for you to make other arrangements. There is a complete listing of the groups in the Connect Catalogue. You can pick up a copy at the church Information Center. If you already have relationships in the church you may want to go a group where your friends are going.
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If you are relatively new, you may want to go to the one nearest your present address. You can talk with him on Sunday mornings or email him at: jalberti citychurchonline. Official sign-up occurs during the month of January. If you miss sign-up, you are welcome to visit any of the groups at any time of the year.
Simply call the facilitator ahead of time to make sure there is room as some of the groups can fill. Got questions? Want to know more about what's going on at City Church?
Paul felt compelled to preach the gospel of Christ I Cor. He tells us that the knowledge that all men would stand before the judgment seat of Christ was another motivation for the persuasion of lost men II Cor. And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? I acknowledge that not all churches use cell groups for the purpose of evangelism. Some groups are closed groups while others are equipped to support those with a particular type of need. On the other hand, my Ph. In this type of church, there is a planned strategy to evangelize non-Christians. Effective cell groups are intentional about their evangelistic activities.
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They plan for evangelism , and they are not satisfied with their methodology until they get results. There are many ways for the cell group to reach out. The list of possible evangelistic activities in the cell groups is endless. It extends as far as the creativity of our imagination. What is successful cell group evangelism? Winning many to Christ in the group?
Discipling the new converts in the cell? Establishing the new converts in the church? Surely, all of the above form vital links in the successful chain. However, from my studies and personal experience, a far more superior goal of cell group evangelism is the multiplication of the cell group itself.
In my opinion, this is the final measure of whether or not a group has ultimately been successful. This issue of cell multiplication seems to be the common thread that links all of the rapidly growing worldwide cell churches. In each one, there is rapid cell group multiplication. If we are going to be in tune with God, we must be willing and committed to rapid multiplication note From a very practical standpoint, cell groups must multiply if they are going to maintain a state of intimacy while continuing to reach out to non-Christian people.
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There is common agreement among the experts that a cell group must be small enough so that all the members can freely contribute and share personal needs. Hadaway writes,. Cell division is not always experienced as a pleasant plan of action for members who have developed deep relationships in the home group meetings. However, the purpose of such action is designed to prevent the kind of exclusiveness and inwardness that can eventually undermine one of the most significant goals of cell groups—outreach and growth The scientific study of small group dynamics has helped us to understand that as small group size increases there is a direct decrease of equally distributed participation.
In other words, the difference in the percentage of remarks between the most active person and the least active person becomes greater and greater as the small group size increases Brilhart Even though all small group experts are in agreement that cells must remain small, there is little agreement concerning the exact size. Many believe that the perfect size lies between eight and twelve people. On the other hand, George sets the number at ten. He feels that in order for a leader to give quality pastoral care, the group must be kept small Although I personally along with others believe that fifteen is a healthy limit, my point here is that a cell group must remain small enough in order to maximize personal sharing.
In many of the most rapidly growing cell churches around the world, the time that it takes for the individual cells to multiply is approximately six months Neighbour I recently even heard of a Baptist Church in Modesto, California which is multiplying their cell groups every four months note However, it is true that not all cells multiply in a matter of months. However, there seems to be a consensus that the longer a cell group stays together, the harder it is to multiply. Carl George, who has studied multitudes of cell-based churches around the world gives this counsel,.
The gestation period for healthy groups to grow and divide ranges from four to twenty-four months. If a group stays together for more than two years without becoming a parent, it stagnates. But every time a cell bears a child, the clock resets. Thus a small subgroup can remain together indefinitely and remain healthy and fresh by giving birth every few months Perhaps a healthy balance between the rapid multiplication period of six months and the dangerous two year figure is a one year goal and time limit for cell multiplication.
From what I understand about small group cycles, one year would give the group sufficient time to solidify and yet not too much time to fossilize. Should a cell group be allowed to meet beyond a certain period? Should cell groups be allowed to continue indefinitely without multiplying? As the director of a cell group ministry in two growing churches in Ecuador, it was my policy to keep the groups alive as long as possible—even if they were weak and had not multiplied.
I reasoned from a pastoral care standpoint, that more cells could naturally care for more church people. Many in the science of small groups believe that small groups have very definite cycles. They move from birth to death. He was referring to the life cycle of small groups Gorman This life cycle has a definite termination point.
5 Shifts Your Church Must Make to Grow Small Groups
In the same way, Lyman Coleman encourages groups to have a beginning and an end It seems to me that most cell-based ministries in the church do not take these small group life cycles very seriously, if they even know about them. Small groups in cell-based churches are programmed to continue indefinitely, with the general hope of multiplication.
The groups do not have a planned termination point. Carl F. George echoes the thinking of most of these cell-based churches when he states,. Tensions and discontent can be motivational devices for birthing Why have cell-based churches resisted programming their cells to stop and start according to definite time periods?
In my opinion, there are at least two reasons for this resistance. Since the need for pastoral care among the congregation never stops, why should the cell groups? This emphasis on pastoral care can be seen in the names given to these small groups. Second, there is a move away from programs in these cell-based churches. The idea of starting and stopping a cell group in order to join another one, appears to be closely associated with a programatic approach that has been quite common in the traditional Sunday School system. There could very well be other reasons why there is a resistance to this cyclical pattern.
However, by ignoring these the definite small group cycle, perhaps the cell-based movement has unknowingly fallen into other, more subtle kinds of difficulties. These problems include:. In other words, their experience becomes the norm.
Ten Ways to Grow a Small Group
New groups look at the weak, non-multiplying groups, and reason that there is little hope to multiple since such and such a group has not done so. The members within these groups never experience exciting cell group multiplication and thus, even sub-consciously, they contribute to the stagnation of the entire process.
This should be the genetic code established in every new group in the church—born to multiply. If the group does not multiply within a set number of months, perhaps it is best just to dissolve the group and let those cell members integrate into groups that are experiencing growth and multiplication. This truth has been a growing conviction on my heart lately. For that reason, I was encouraged when I talked with Dr.
Ralph Neighbour recently. He told me that in his system, if a cell group has not multiplied within about seven months he immediately added that the seven month figure depended on the situation , he counsels that the cell should dissolve and be integrated into the existing groups note I recently heard about a cell church in Medan, Indonesia that follows similar principles.
The cell groups in that church comprise the core of all church activities. The goal of each group is to divide every year. In fact if a cell does not divide to divide every year. Likewise, Tony Rosenthal, a Southern Baptist church planter, has developed an effective way to plant churches using cell groups. In his system, a cell group must give birth within six months or the group disbands. He has discovered that groups tend to become stagnant and inward looking if they are not constantly looking for new converts Hadaway, Wright, and DuBose Instead of denying the one to emphasize the other, there seems to be an instant harmony between the two concepts.
I have no hard facts for this statement, but it seems logical to me that if there is success in the rapid multiplication of cells, there will generally be rapid church growth—unless more groups are dissolving than multiplying. With an intense program of multiplication, it would be necessary to constantly train and raise up new leaders.