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Starting New Adult Sunday School Classes
Every year I do a study of the fastest growing Sunday Schools in Georgia. Actually it’s a study of all the Sunday Schools in Georgia, but only the fastest growing churches are recognized. This year...
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Who Does Your Group Pray For?
It was one of those moments that I will never forget. Leading a Sunday School conference, I introduced the possibility that classes should have an evangelistic prayer list of unchurched/lost people to...
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The Mark of a Super Leader
Abraham Lincoln said, “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” Helping others help themselves is truly a mark of good leaders. One theory of...
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Preparation for Teaching…A Personal Prayer Approach
I stood before our Adult Sunday School Class leaders in a recent workers meeting I asked what they considered their greatest needs in Sunday School. Without question, the greatest need was prayer....
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Using the Sunday School to Create a Disciple-Making Culture
Part One What were Jesus’ intentions when he commissioned His followers to “Go…Make Disciples”? Matthew 28:19-20 I think He intended to change their very culture into one that focused on making...
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Using the Sunday School to Create a Disciple-Making Culture
Part Two There is a great deal of talk about “Making Disciples” today. Everywhere people are pontificating this philosophy, but just talking want make disciples. Creating a disciple-making culture...
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Using the Sunday School to Create a Disciple-Making Culture
Part Three Those of you who have been around awhile will remember Andy Anderson and his Sunday School Growth Spiral. Today, these practices are often demonized as Programmatic. The general consensus...
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Show Them the Apprentice, Part 1
When I finished a training event in a church for teachers and leaders of adult groups, one of the teachers told me he finally figured out why his group did not believe him when he said they were going...
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Show Them the Apprentice, Part 2
WHAT APPRENTICING CURRICULUM SHOULD I USE? The teaching plan for training your apprentice starts with your life and group leadership practices. Invite your apprentice to join you in both. Investing in...
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Show Them the Apprentice, Part 3
WHERE CAN I FIND SPONSORS FOR MULTIPLYING GROUPS? A sponsor is someone who will pray for, invite to, and fellowship with a new group. The pastor, educational staff, Sunday School/small groups...
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Essential #3: Enrollment
ENROLLMENT REALLY WORKS! One of my favorite commericial features legendary detective Bo Dietl. He is on the case again trying to discover if Arby’s fish Sandwich really is made with fresh fish. He...
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Essential #4: Start with the Right DNA
DNA has moved from science classroom discussions to the mainstream of television shows and nightly news reports over the years. What is it? It is the genetic code or the hereditary material of all...
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D – Disciple-Making at the Core
Travelers to Alexandria, Indiana have the opportunity to see something unique. Hanging in a shed in the Michael Carmichael’s backyard is the world’s largest solid ball of paint. For over 35 years,...
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Start with the Right DNA: N-Network of people on Mission
There are 168 hours in a week. If the average class meets once a week for one hour at a time, then that leaves 167 hours left. Obviously, we need to sleep, eat, work, play with our family, go to...
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A – Accountability
In the Extreme Sunday School Challenge by Bruce Raley and David Francis, the right DNA for a new group includes accountability, “Accountable for sending leaders and starting new groups.” Somehow the...
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Reality Revealed
In the book Extreme Sunday School Challenge, the authors raise the awareness of our current static Sunday School situation in American churches. In 1972 the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) reported...
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There is Hope
Yesterday’s article (Reality Revealed) conveyed to us the reality of today’s culture and worldview as it pertains to Sunday School. The last line of the article stated, “There is Hope.” There is...
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Life Cycles – What Goes Around, Comes Around
I was the pastor of several churches in the Midwest during college and in my early days of ministry. Sometimes those churches grew and multiplied and there were years when we declined. Of course, I...
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Is Anytime, Anywhere in your Future?
A few years ago, the church I was serving decided to offer Bible study anytime, anywhere. The year prior saw us steadily developing new leaders. Now the time felt right to step out in faith. We...
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Options for New Groups
The line “We have never done it that way before”, still brings some challenges to some folks in many of our churches. But, when considering possibilities for new groups, we must be willing to get out...
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