August 25th, 2009 
alandanielson Last time I wrote about ChurchTeams and Monvee which provide customized spiritual growth tracks for people. Imagine if everyone in your church completed one of these assessments. What if you took the spiritual pulse of everyone in your congregation in January 2010 and found that on average your people need help with doctrine, mission, and [...]
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No Comments » August 24th, 2009 alandanielson Churches tend to offer discipleship programs that are “one-size-fits-all”. Sadly, since most people don’t want to be pigeon-holed these discipleship programs become “one-size-fits-none”. To really help people grow spiritually, we need to provide discipleship tracks that custom fit the individual. There are two products I’ve encountered that are providing individual-specific spiritual development. First is [...]
Posted in Spiritual Growth Tags: church, churches, churchteams, custom, customized, Discipleship, disciplines, formation, individualized, monvee, specialized, spiritual, teams 4 Comments » August 17th, 2009 alandanielson Recently I was asked to be a part of the Blog Tour for Larry Osborne’s Sticky Church. Needless to say, I was really honored. A few days later I found out that I was being asked to kick off the tour by reviewing the first chapter. I was blown away. Then I got the book [...]
Posted in Small Groups Tags: book, church, Discipleship, group, groups, Larry, Osborne, review, small, Sticky, zondervaan 5 Comments » July 29th, 2009 alandanielson Would you be willing to help make an immediate impact in Uganda? Pastor Samuel Sebuliba is the Lead Pastor of a church plant, New Destiny Community Church, in Uganda and he is my friend. Yesterday he shared that their church is in need of sound equipment and an inflatable Moon Bounce for their outreach to [...]
July 15th, 2009 alandanielson As a consultant I get the priviledge of speaking into the ministries of many different churches, but one of my favorite things is learning from the churches I encounter. Last weekend I spent some time at Cross Point Community Church in Nashville where Pete Wilson is the pastor (pictured right). My overall assessment of Cross Point’s small group ministry is that [...]
Posted in Small Groups, Special Tags: church, consultant, Consulting, cross, group, groups, ministry, nashville, point, small No Comments » June 18th, 2009 admin by Boyd Pelley A couple of years ago, I was training some leaders on using our system for weekly communication when Todd asked me if I remembered when he had stopped going to church and small group a couple of years earlier. I did. “What you don’t know,” he said, “is that every week [...]
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