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Systems for Missional Groups
Andy Stanley's talk about Systems really connects with me. If you haven't heard it google it now and soak it up! 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 we post online weekly as a .pdf file. Because it's simple, affordable, and accessible group leaders download and use it on a nearly weekly basis. The system created a behavior: the weekly habit of downloading curriculum.
Recently at JourneyChurch.tv we mixed things up with our curriculum by removing the discussion element from the weekly curriculum and inserting a 60 minute mission activity. So our leaders habitually download the document and then follow a mission "recipe" with their group rather than discuss a topic. We're doing this for 10 weeks. You can see this curriculum at http://www.journeygroups.tv
Why are we doing this? To leverage an effective/exisiting system and get groups to experience mission. This modification to the system is having a great effect on the behavior of our groups! They are becoming more missional.
What missional systems do you have in your small group ministries? I want to steal as many good ideas as I can so please spill the beans!
We have a system for curriculum. We create a set of discussion questions with Scripture that we post online weekly as a .pdf file. Because it's simple, affordable, and accessible group leaders download and use it on a nearly weekly basis. The system created a behavior: the weekly habit of downloading curriculum.
Recently at JourneyChurch.tv we mixed things up with our curriculum by removing the discussion element from the weekly curriculum and inserting a 60 minute mission activity. So our leaders habitually download the document and then follow a mission "recipe" with their group rather than discuss a topic. We're doing this for 10 weeks. You can see this curriculum at http://www.journeygroups.tv
Why are we doing this? To leverage an effective/exisiting system and get groups to experience mission. This modification to the system is having a great effect on the behavior of our groups! They are becoming more missional.
What missional systems do you have in your small group ministries? I want to steal as many good ideas as I can so please spill the beans!
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