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Building Christian Community. Small Group Ministry in Today’s Seventh-Day Adventist Church. 1. Small groups: part of God’s plan 2. Life-changing small groups: some definitions 3. Small group values: the key to growth - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Building Christian Community
Small Group Ministry in Today’s Seventh-Day Adventist
Church
1. Small groups: part of God’s plan
2. Life-changing small groups: some definitions
3. Small group values: the key to growth
4. Small group meetings and small group life
5. The goal of small groups: holiness and harvest
6. Small group leadership
7. Developing a small groups network
8. Maintaining the network
Building Christian Community
SESSION SEVEN: DEVELOPING A
SMALL GROUPS NETWORK
Getting Started…?
Need for
Strategy! Need for
Strategy!
Getting Started…?
2. Pray, and follow as God leads
1. Study and understand small group ministry
Getting Started...
3. Share the vision with others
Focus on values and objectives, not just groups
4. Designate small group co-ordinator
Getting Started...
5. Identify leadership teams, each consisting of:
• Leader
• Apprentice leader
• Host or hostess
and begin training.But remember…
Getting Started...
Grow...
…don’t GO
...into small groups. START SMALL
6. Form a Prototype Group
Getting Started
Co-ordinator/ trainer
Group leaders
Apprentices
Getting Started.
• to train
• to bond
• to develop a reproducible model
• to provide an authentic small group experience.
• to practice the real thing!
Jesus in the centre
The purpose of the prototype:
Other church members
7. Build core groups by adding 3-4 members
Getting Started...
Leadership team
Core Group
8. Build complete groups by adding 5-6 non-members
Getting Started...
Core Group
Complete Small Group
Non-members
Introducing Non-S.D.A. Friends to Your Group
• Pray that God will guide you to the other Christians or non-Christians He wants in the group
• Take other group Take other group members to Bible members to Bible study contactsstudy contacts
• Offer something of shared interest, e.g. parenting, stress
• Introduce friends socially to group members, e.g. anniversary, concert, birth-day, barbecue, etc.
• Use a course to introduce Christian beliefs like “Alpha”
• Just invite them to the group
Getting Started
9. Make sure one or two people don’t wear ALL the hats!
Getting Started
9a. Identify abilities and gifts in the group, and delegate responsibilities
Put the right hats on the right heads
JESUS IN
CENTRE
Getting Started
Task Sub-Group
Support Sub-
Group
Study Sub-Group
Leadership sub-group
Basic Small Group
10. Keep the small group at the level of a basic Christian community, organizing sub-groups as necessary
Getting Started...
11. Keep the vision clear by reading, prayer, observation evaluation, and training for group members
12. Plan ahead: have a strategy for growth
Getting Started
Remember the Jethro leadership principle
Leaders of 10
Supervising pastor
Leaders of 50
Leaders of 100
Leaders of 500
Future Challenge for Small Groups...
““The great outpouring of the Spirit ofGod, which lightens the whole earthwith His glory, will not come until wehave an enlightened people who know by experience what it means to be labourers together with God…but this will not be while the largest portion of the church are not labourers together with God.” Evangelism 699
““The great outpouring of the Spirit ofGod, which lightens the whole earthwith His glory, will not come until wehave an enlightened people who know by experience what it means to be labourers together with God…but this will not be while the largest portion of the church are not labourers together with God.” Evangelism 699
Building Christian Community
Small Group Ministry in Today’s Seventh-Day Adventist
Church
OHP 5.5OHP 5.5
1 6 5 4 3 2
Be convinced of Small Groups yourself & convince your leaders
Plan your teaching & introduce that teaching to your church
Prototype Cells
1st Wave Cells & Train new Cell Leaders
2nd & 3rd Wave
Adjustment of old programme - Transition complete
Six year transition outline
The Pastor’s Changing Role
Traditional Responsibilities
• Year 1 80%• Year 2 60%• Year 3 40%• Year 4 20%• Year 5 ?
Small Group Responsibilities
Year 1 20%Year 2 40%Year 3 60%Year 4 80%Year 5 ?
The Original Cell Model
KOREAKOREA
The “Touch” ModelSingapore,Singapore,Hong Kong,Hong Kong,
South South Africa,Africa,U.S.A., U.S.A., Russia,Russia,
many other many other nationsnations
The Groups of Twelve (Turbo) Model
Bogota, Bogota, ColumbiaColumbia
How It Works
LEADEROF
TWELVE
Each of the Each of the twelve twelve
develops up develops up to three Cell to three Cell Groups. The Groups. The
goal is to find goal is to find twelve twelve
leaders who leaders who will launch will launch
Cells.Cells.
The G12 Structure
Cell leader’s main task is to develop more leaders
The Story• First 7 years,
Castellanos worked with Cho’s system of Cells.
• Grew to 3,000 people…
• 1992-1997, with “Groups of Twelve” Strategy, grew to 10,460 Cell Groups
The ObjectiveThe Objective
To evangelize all of Colombia and see a Cell Church planted in every town in the nation.
How Membership Has Grown
84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 980
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98
Started Started “Groups of “Groups of Twelve” Twelve” StrategyStrategy3000
members
How Cells Have Multiplied!
84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 980
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98
10,45610,456Cells as ofCells as of
January, 1997!January, 1997!
Growth Principles of G12 (Turbo) Model
• Everyone is a potential group leader• Everyone is ministered to then ministers• Everyone can disciple 12 others• A believer can only be part of your 12
when they open a cell• Everyone should win souls and develop
leaders• Homogeneous cells grow more rapidly