Does your church use a sermon based small group model?
This week the Zondervan team was blessed to host Pastor Larry Osborne for a day hear in Grand Rapids. Though the ugly weather and biting wind made him miss his home in San Diego we tried to show him a good time.
You might remember that Larry is the author of a few books with Zondervan: Sticky Church, Sticky Teams, and the forthcoming book, Sifted (co-authored with Wayne Cordeiro and Francis Chan). While we were discussing the marketing plan for his next book (hint, hint…more on that coming soon) I was reminded that Larry and his staff at North Coast Church are true innovators.
Larry doesn’t like to toot his own horn, so I’ll do it for him: He and his staff pioneered the whole idea behind multi-site churches and the sermon based small group model. These two formats for doing ministry are almost commonplace now, but 20 years ago they sure weren’t. In Sticky Church Larry unpacks how the team at North Coast uses the sermon based small group model and explains how to implement it into your ministry. This Baptist Press article also credits Larry with this model, and discusses how another church has altered the way they run their Sunday School classes.
Does your church use a sermon based small group model? If so, name one or two specific tactics you use to try and make this work.
(i.e. how do you resource your small group leaders to make this happen?)
