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Equipping Leaders To Multiply

Category: Small Group Leadership

Pathways to Discipleship

Last week I had the chance to hang out with my friend Heather Zempel the Discipleship Pastor at National Community Church.  Heather has a strong passion for group life and is a great thinker in the area of discipleship.  When she first went on staff at NCC her lead pastor Mark Batterson empowered her to think through how discipleship should best be accomplished.  This led her on a quest to study church history and discover how the church has grown disciples down through the…Continue Reading

Radical Future of Small Groups

This week I had the opportunity to be at one of Leadership Networks Innovation Labs.  This particular Lab focused on The Radical Future of Small Groups.  During these two days eight churches (Seacoast Church, Cross Point CommunityChurch, Calvary Chapel Ft Lauderdale, Ada Bible Church, North Coast Church, Christian Community Church, National Community Church, North Ridge Church) gathered to discussed what cultural factors are influencing groups, look at what small groups might look like in the next ten years and develop…Continue Reading

It’s Not About the Curriculum

It’s that time of year again when small group leaders are starting to think about next semester of groups and ask that old familar question: What’s a good curriculum I can use?  Now the funny thing is there have been times I’ve shared my top curriculum choice with someone only to have them say, “Yea, I tried that one and it didn’t work for me.” Everyone is looking for that “perfect” curriculum. But the truth is it’s…Continue Reading

Small Group Leader Training Session 2

On Wednesday November 4, I posted Session One of Seacoast Church new online Small Group Training.  As we are preparing to launch this new training we thought we would get your input.  We had a great response so we decided to put session two our there as well.  Please take a few minutes to work your way through this session then send me an email with your feedback.  See something that you would change…let me…Continue Reading

Making Coaching Work with Eric Metcalf

I had the opportunity recently to sit down with Eric Metalf and talk about Small Group Coaching.  Eric is the Small Groups Director at Christian Community Church, a multisite church with eleven different campuses.  Eric was also recently named the director of the New Thing Network.  CCC is an amazing church where Lead Pastor Dave Ferguson has built a rich leadership development culture where multiplication has become a part of their DNA. In this video Eric shares…Continue Reading