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    Small Groups for the Rest of Us: How to Design Your Small Groups System to Reach the Fringes
    Small Groups for the Rest of Us: How to Design Your Small Groups System to Reach the Fringes
    Small Groups for the Rest of Us: How to Design Your Small Groups System to Reach the Fringes
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    Small Groups for the Rest of Us: How to Design Your Small Groups System to Reach the Fringes

    By Chris Surratt

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    Most churches in America struggle to have a significant percentage of their adult attendance in small groups. According to recent research done by Lifeway Research, only “33 percent of churchgoers attend classes or groups for adults (such as Sunday school, Bible study, small groups, or Adult Bible Fellowships) four or more times in a typical month. Fourteen percent attend two or three times a month.”

    Life transformation happens best within the context of community, so if a church is going to be intentional about discipleship they have to develop on-ramps to small groups that reach people on the fringes and beyond. If we continue to offer small groups to the normal church attenders, a majority of the people who show up to church are never reached.

    Pastors, church staff and small group leaders are trying to figure out how to make small groups work in their church and they don’t know how. Small Groups For The Rest Of Us gives them practical, proven strategies on moving people from the fringes into biblically based communities.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateSep 29, 2015
    ISBN9780718032326

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