March 23rd, 2011 
alandanielson Originally posted 03-15-2010. Reposted 03-23-2011. —————————————————————— I only started working a lot with small groups 5 years ago. Since then I’ve learned a ton about small groups and I’ve been blessed with a large network of friends in the small group ministry world. I’ve learned there are tons of different approaches and models for small [...]
Posted in Small Groups, Spiritual Growth 
Tags: denominations, Discipleship, division, factions, Small Groups, Unity 
3 Comments » February 24th, 2011 alandanielson Originally posted 02-01-2010. Reposted 02-24-2011. —————————————————————— No pastor or church leader would use a phrase like this blog post’s title to promote a discipleship curriculum or program. It sounds like a silly infomercial, not to mention it’s utterly unbiblical. Sadly though, the way we promote discipleship in our churches frequently and unintentionally sends this kind of message. [...]
Posted in Spiritual Growth Tags: classes, Curriculum, Discipleship, Leadership, Spiritual Formation, workshops 5 Comments » June 1st, 2010 alandanielson Originally posted 08-02-2009. Reposted 06-01-2010 A friend of mine asked if I would write a blog post about why there seems to be a lack of discipleship in the American church today. I think the primary reason for this is that we, as American Christians, just don’t know what we’re doing any more. Our tried-and-true [...]
Posted in Spiritual Growth Tags: american, christians, church, development, Discipleship, growth, spiritual 3 Comments » February 24th, 2010 alandanielson Yesterday I received an email from a small group pastor about curriculum and courses for new believers. I can’t count how many times people have asked me about this same subject, so I thought it was time to write a post about it. The problem is usually put to me this way: ”We’re a fast growing church [...]
Posted in Small Groups, Spiritual Growth Tags: Alpha, Christianity Explored, Church Growth, Discipleship, New Believers, Spiritual Growth 2 Comments » August 26th, 2009 alandanielson I’m about to make someone a millionaire. Recently I’ve written about ChurchTeams and Monvee as spiritual growth tools for your church. The problem is that they don’t “learn”.* Here’s what I mean. If I complete the spiritual assessment and find that patience is my greatest spiritual vulnerability I’ll be given resources to help me become [...]
Posted in Spiritual Growth Tags: algorithm, church, churches, churchteams, custom, customized, Discipleship, disciplines, formation, individualized, monvee, specialized, spiritual, teams 2 Comments » 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 [...]
Posted in Spiritual Growth Tags: church, churches, churchteams, custom, customized, Discipleship, disciplines, formation, individualized, monvee, specialized, spiritual, teams 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 3rd, 2009 alandanielson Many Churches (right or wrong) are boiling groups down to three values. Churches sometimge give these three values different names, but they typically represent the following words: Community, Discipleship, Mission. When I’m talking to these churches I find that they feel like they do community and discipleship pretty well but don’t do mission very well. They [...]
Posted in Small Groups, Spiritual Growth Tags: community, Discipleship, Evangelism, fellowship, group, groups, mission, small, values No Comments »
