Last week I was able to spend some time at the Right Now Conference, which is heavily littered with Group Ministry nuggets. Over the course of three days there were a couple of themes that I didn’t hear:
How to get more people in groups. I looked at the program really hard and didn’t see any workshops with that title. There weren’t any workshops on connection events or whether groups should be open or closed. There was plenty of discussion about groups having a mission. I heard the term “Missional Communities” a bazillion times, which has always been kind of buzz-wordy to me, but now I like it. For some churches, Missional Communities is their group ministry. In other churches, their church’s groups are intended to move to a missional focus.
How to find leaders. There were no workshops that were concerned with teaching you how to find leaders for your groups ministry. There were, however, several sessions on developing a leadership culture and having a leadership strategy. There was talk on having disciple-making disciples and empowering everyone in your groups to be about discipleship, teaching them to feed themselves and to not have to depend upon a leader to impart Biblical knowledge.
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