Exponential Groups

This book brims with effective strategies for recruiting leaders, connecting members into groups, coaching groups for success, and giving people something to say yes to, even when they have rejected church-wide campaigns previously offered by their churches. Keys to effective, ongoing groups include leadership training, ongoing coaching, appropriate recordkeeping, as well as a sequence of aligned series rather than just a single occasional campaign. This book provides fundamentals that will insure ongoing success―proven principles used effectively in hundreds of churches across North America.

Readers of Exponential Groups will learn how to connect their “unconnected” members into community, recruit the group leaders needed to connect and grow their congregation, coach group leaders for a sustainable group structure that will serve their church for years to come, understand how to maintain current discipleship strategies, and implement new strategies without alienating their members or derailing their current systems.

1. Opening Credits
2. Dedication
3. Foreword by Chip Ingram
4. Introduction
5. The Strategy | Chapter 1: Launching Groups and Living to Tell About It
6. Chapter 2: Why an Alignment?
7. Chapter 3: Finding Your Acceptable Level of Risk
8. The Launch | Chapter 4: Coaching—Beginning with the End in Mind
9. Chapter 5: Effective Strategies for Recruiting Leaders
10. Chapter 6: Training
11. Chapter 7: Group Strategy—Connecting People into Groups
12. The Structure | Chapter 8: Sustaining Groups
13. Chapter 9: Create a Leadership Track
14. Chapter 10: Coaching and Training Your Leaders to Success
15. Chapter 11: Tracking What Matters
16. Chapter 12: My Challenge to You
17. Closing Credits