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Connecting to Community
We live in a day and age now where people are in constant contact with friends, family, work associates, and even with famous people like actors, athletes, or politicians. But we also live in a world...
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Start With The “Why Groups?” Question
For several years now, I have been sharing about Simon Sinek’s video and book, “Start with Why” with anyone who would listen. Simon suggests that people buy into the “why” better than the “what.” I...
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Stage 1: Imagining Possibilities
As a businessman and lay Sunday School Director, Arthur Flake developed and promoted a Five Step Plan for growing Sunday Schools. The next few articles will focus on these five steps that Sunday...
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Stage 2: Declare and Resolve
Most of us have good intentions. We mean to keep our New Year’s Resolutions but our resolve is not as strong as our hopes. When it comes to starting NEW GROUPS; your resolve must be strong. New Groups...
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Stage 3: Draft Day
I do not remember the (military) draft. I was too young. As David Francis points out in his book, Countdown, he was one of the last of a generation who understood what it meant to be “Drafted” into...
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Stage 4: Determine
The fourth ingredient of Flake’s Formula is to provide space. In their book Countdown, David Francis and Rick Howerton state this piece of the formula as determining a plan for providing space and...
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Stage 5: Deploy
Every football season begins the same way for just about every team at every level. Each team has high hopes of a championship; develops a playbook; positions its players at their areas of strength;...
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What Is Your Group’s Primary Purpose, Really?
A group leader recently shared with me his understanding of Sunday School. His overarching terms were worship, community, and evangelism. With his spiritual gifts of teaching and leadership, he felt...
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Two Words that Will Determine Your Group’s Destiny
I believe that your Sunday School class or small group will grow proportionally to the degree you embrace, advance, and insist that your class/group always remain SMALL and NEW! There are some jumping...
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Direction
I really do not like Garmin. We had purchased the GPS device while on a trip back home from visiting our daughter and son-in-law in South Carolina. At first, I became mesmerized with the woman’s...
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