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Action points in Acts will guide you as you step out to serve Christ in the same way that believers and churches did in the New Testament era. Read the key action points in the Book of Acts, write the corresponding plans, and then carry them out. If possible, do so in cooperation with your family or with a group of believers. 1.      Prepare to extend God’s Kingdom. Read Acts 1:8, 14. Pray for the Holy Spirit’s empowering to witness for Jesus where He said: Locally (your … [Read more...]

Many churches make a healthy, joyful transition by becoming a cell-producing church, by multiplying tiny groups that are small yet real churches within the larger church body. However, most Western churches that attempt this transition fail to carry it through to their satisfaction. In many cases that the authors examined, churches failed to prepare their people to start the kind of groups that continued to multiply. Many churches have made the transition thoroughly; they are more common in Asia … [Read more...]

  POY! SKIT GUIDELINES: In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words. Most POY! skits require no practice in advance. Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants. Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story along. It is not necessary to employ costumes … [Read more...]

  POY! SKIT GUIDELINES: In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words. Most POY! skits require no practice in advance. Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants. Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story along. It is not necessary to employ costumes … [Read more...]

    Fear Reality How to overcome Skit idea 1 People will leave the congregation and go into cell groups. Most people will remain loyal to the congregation and many new believers will come in. Let current members launch discipleship cells and send workers to start cell groups near and far. Two leaders meet. One expresses his fear and the other his experience. 2 People will take their tithes with them, the budget will shrink and I will … [Read more...]

   “They will deliver you up to suffer and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. Then many will fall away, betray one another and hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. Because lawlessness will increase, the love of many will grow cold, but the one who endures to the end will be saved. This gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will … [Read more...]

  Dutch researcher, Geert Hofstede, found several cultural traits that help to define a company or society. One of those traits he called “power distance,” which includes how strongly leaders believe that the efforts of their followers are a result of the leaders’ decisions. “Distant” leaders feel that they alone have the right and might to make decisions. Their followers either agree with them or are afraid to differ with them openly. Where both leaders and followers agree that … [Read more...]