3. TO KEEP OUR CONGREGATION FOCUSED ON EACH THEME INTENSELY AND COLLECTIVELY.
Our community pastor, Danny Kirk, who often teaches parts of our series on Sundays, writes small group studies in advance that our group hosts can use in their meetings to dive deeper into the content of the message from Sunday. Our student leader adapts that curriculum for jr. and sr. high students, and our kids director designs her curriculum for kids worship to flow with my sermons as well.
And because kids, teenagers, adults and small groups are all on the same page, families get to talk about their shared spiritual growth together.
4. TO GIVE A DOZEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEMBERS TO INVITE PEOPLE.
Almost every series lasts one month. The first Sunday of each month, then, becomes a bit of a “kick-off” point where we get to say something like, “Come and join us for a new teaching series about …” This gives us 12 opportunities to publicize something new, to launch new groups with a new curriculum, and to be creative with graphics and environmental elements.
