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You Should Do The Opposite
Last week, I helped facilitate a Leadership Community at Leadership Network in Dallas, and one of the exercises that we had the teams do was called Opposites. We had each church list 5 of the most...
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Big Day
Yesterday was an amazing day at Cross Point as we celebrated the opening of our Nashville campus’ new building in downtown Nashville. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Cross Point, the...
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Is Your Group Balanced?
No matter what kind of a study that a small group does – message notes, dvd driven, book study, Bible study – every discussion should have these 3 components: knowledge, understanding and action. A...
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Why We Do Groups
I have written before about how I believe the number 1 key to small groups working in a church is the public support of the senior pastor. Our Pastor, Pete Wilson, recently talked about our groups...
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4 Wrong Assumptions About Discipleship
I think that all of us would say that the main purpose for small groups in a church is to make disciples. If we are not making disciples, then we might as well call them social clubs. The question...
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Gay Marriage and Small Groups
I normally use this space to share a thought or a nugget of wisdom that I have picked up along the way, but today I would love to have a discussion. If your small group team has not thought through...
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It’s Time To End It
We kicked off a new series yesterday at Cross Point called, The 5 Lies That We Believe. I am excited about this series, because what stops most people from doing amazing things for God are the lies...
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Why Should I Care About Theology?
I am currently taking a group of guys at Cross Point through a spiritual leadership mentoring process. For 8 months, we will be studying a variety of church leadership books, Bible study methods and...
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5 Reasons Why They Aren’t Coming Back
Ever leader thinks that they have a great small group. And some of them wonder why people won’t come back after they visit for the first time. There are a million reasons why some people try out a...
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Community Is Not An Option
Like everyone on Monday, I watched in horror as the tragic events in Boston unfolded on my computer screen and tv. I will never fully comprehend why there are sick people in the world who desire to...
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Is Anyone Following?
One of my favorite Ted talks is about how to start a movement by Derek Sivers. He uses a video from a music festival in Europe as an example of how a movement is built in about 3 minutes. One of the...
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We Just Want To Belong
I tweeted this earlier this week: “I tell my kids they are silly to worry about being left out of something, then it happens to me & I am consumed with it.”. The tweet was inspired by an emotion...
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Baptism
Yesterday was baptism day at all of our Cross Point campuses. I have been in full-time ministry for 20 years, and I am still amazed at the power of seeing someone take their first public step of faith...
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Should We Stop During The Summer?
School is starting to wind down, vacation plans are being made, but what about our small group? Summer time is tricky for a lot of groups, because if you forge ahead with the normal schedule, you will...
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Top 5 Posts In April
In case you missed them, here are the top 5 posts from April. 5 Reasons They Aren’t Coming Back Should We Stop During The Summer? 4 Wrong Assumptions About Discipleship Community Is Not An Option We...
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5 Reasons Not To Disciple
1. It’s really hard Helping someone become a fully devoted follower of Christ is not for the faint of heart. There will be times of elated joy and times of extreme frustration. People’s lives are...
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It Takes A Tribe
I am in Dallas this week, hanging out with a group of churches at Leadership Network talking about the rapid growth that each church has seen and how it impacts their ministry. One of the comments,...
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What I Wish I Knew At 20
This year will be my 20th in full-time ministry. There are so many days where I wish that I could go back and start all over. Not because I am disappointed with where I am now, but because I could...
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Build A Big Fire
I heard someone say recently that when we are trying to light a fire under ministries, what we are doing most of the time is like using a gas can on the bbq. It will build a big fire for a few...
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Email Doesn’t Work
I love the Ted talk that Simon Sinek gave a few years ago about how great leaders inspire action. The premise of the talk is that people do not buy what you do, they buy why you do it. They follow you...
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