In my last two posts I wrote about understanding why groups tend not to embrace mission, and how we need to personally revisit our theology of small groups. Today let’s explore the idea of environments. As leaders we must create an environment that fosters the living out and embracing of our missional values and our missional theology [...]

Last time I talked about 7 contributing reasons for group inwardness and self-focus. Over the next few posts I’ll describe some steps we can take as leaders to adjust the course of our small group ministries from inward to outward. Let’s start with reviewing our own theological perspective for groups and mission.  Now I don’t want to [...]

Randall Neighbour asked a really loaded question: “How would you consult or work with a church to help them turn consumers into producers?”  I thought this great question deserved a series of posts in response. Thanks for asking, Randall! Let’s start by trying to understand the “why” behind the “what”. The “what”, simply put, is that most small groups [...]