March 8th, 2011 
alandanielson Originally Posted, March 8, 2010. Reposted March 8, 2011. ——————————————————– Recently I was asked, “What do you think is the most important issue facing the church today?” My answer is not about politics, drugs, teenage sex, or pop culture. My answer is simply one word: Change. For every generation in the church the issue is [...]
January 5th, 2011 alandanielson Originally posted Jan 6, 2010. Reposted Jan 5, 2011 —————————————————————– Many church leaders are frustrated with the small group, Bible study class, or Sunday school strategy they have in place at their church. They’re frustrated because they see a trend toward inwardness. People in the groups are learning God’s Word and they’re caring for each [...]
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No Comments » October 20th, 2010 alandanielson Originally posted 10-08-2009. Reposted 10-20-2010 ——————————————————————- A reader named Rolland once left the following comment on my blog: “Recently there have been a couple of occasions that no one has shown up for a meeting, with no phone call – and we have 7 families represented. Now that we’re trying to move to be more [...]
Posted in Mission, Small Groups Tags: brainstorm, brainstorming, Christ, game, group, groups, Jesus, leader, Leadership, mission, Missional/Outwardness, missions, project, Rolland, small 2 Comments » March 10th, 2010 alandanielson This is a repost from my old blog. —————————– Seth Godin is a genius when it comes to leadership and marketing. His blog is one of my favorites to read. Here’s an excerpt from one of his blog posts that speaks powerfully to small groups: “There’s a story in the bible with very specific instructions [...]
February 17th, 2010 alandanielson My guest blogger today is Steve Yarrow. I had the privilege of meeting Steve through the Willow Creek Association. He is the is the small group pastor at Northridge Church in Plymouth, Michigan (Detroit Metro Area). I recently spoke at a leader training event at Northridge and heard Steve talk about something [...]
Posted in Leadership, Mission, Small Groups Tags: Guest Blogger, mission, Missional/Outwardness, northridge church, Steve Yarrow No Comments » November 5th, 2009 alandanielson Today I have the privilege of sharing a video with you. It is the story is about a little boy named Sorie from Sierra Leone and my friend Jim Pierce whom God used to work a miracle in Sorie’s life. Please watch all 8 minutes and witness the power of one small group on mission. [...]
October 28th, 2009 alandanielson Next week, November 5-7 I’m honored to be speaking at the Lead Now ’09 Conference and I want to give a way some tickets! The conference will take place in Irving (DFW), Texas and in 40 plus satellite locations in the US and Canada. Keep reading to find out how you can win. I can [...]
August 30th, 2009 alandanielson This is a re-post from my old blog, but I thought is was timely so I’m posting it again as new. ——————————— Small groups inevitabely get a little stale. Group boredom is a death sentence. Even if your group isn’t stale right now, it probably will be sometime in the future. Many times groups think [...]
Posted in Small Groups, Spiritual Growth Tags: bored, boring, Curriculum, excited, exciting, group, groups, Jesus, lame, mission, small, stale, tired No 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 » June 29th, 2009 alandanielson Andy Stanley’s Catalyst talk about Systems really connects with me. If you haven’t heard it get it from Catalyst or at least read a summary of it here. In that talk he says “Systems create behaviors” and I couldn’t agree more. We have a system for curriculum. We create a set of discussion questions with Scripture that [...]
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