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You can sign up all of your teachers by emailing me their email addresses: josh@joshhunt.com
The #1 predictor of the growth of any class is the teaching ability of the teacher. This 13 part video teaches your teachers how to make disciples through the Sunday School.
Robert E. Logan Jeannette Buller The Cell Church Planter's Guide provides practical, step-by-step instructions to guide you as you establish a vision, gather a team, start your first cell groups, and launch your first celebration. Through a seven-stage church planting process, Logan and Buller will help you shape your journey to become a thriving cell church. As your church moves through these stages, you will find yourself returning to the hands-on tools provided to help you as you grow. This kit comes with ten cassette tapes and a notebook.
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If you choose option #2, congratulations, you just just choose twenty one million dollars. If you choose option #1, sorry, you just lost twenty one million dollars. Here is how the details work out:
Perhaps a chart would help. The column on the left is your $21 million. Can't see the column on the right? You get the picture!
That is the power of multiplication. I am fond of giving this illustration in my seminars. Imagine you were to take an ordinary piece of paper and fold it 50 times, how thick do you think the resulting stack of paper would be? Now, to be fair, this is impossible, because before long the paper is so small and so thick you can't keep folding it. But if it were possible, how thick do you think it would be? Two people I asked answered this way:
Correct answer, roughly the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Don't believe me? Do you have Excel? Work it out for yourself. That is the power of multiplication. That is why I get so excited about a Sunday School teacher who can double his class in two years or less. If we can perfect that one simple skill, we can turn the world upside down. You wouldn't be able to start services fast enough. You couldn't build buildings quickly enough. You couldn't start new churches soon enough to contain the growth if we can teach Sunday School teachers and small group leaders to double every two years or less. That is the power of multiplication. This power of multiplication is often applied in a one-on-one way. I win someone to Christ and disciple him and he wins someone to Christ and disciples him and so on. I think a much more biblical pattern is through a church. I like to think of it though a micro-church, the Sunday School class or small home group. I think that is the way Paul applied the power of multiplication in 2 Timothy 2.2, "And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses, impart to reliable men who will be able to teach others." Note that the imparting was in the presence of many witnesses. We don't know how many. I assume it was at least the size of the average Sunday School class. We tend to get excited about big things. We get excited about having he Power Team come in and set stuff on fire and bend steel and lift heavy objects. That has its place. But do you know what gets me excited? A group of ten people who can grow to 14 in a year. Because if we can do that, we can grow to 20 in two years. If we can do that we can double every two years or less. If we can do that we can turn the world upside down. That is the power of multiplications. The Bible says, "Who despises the day of small things? " Zech. 4:10 Well, Southern Baptists, for one group! We like big things. Big meetings and big programs and big events. We like big things. The power is often in the small. In the small group that can grow can 10 to 14 in a year. There is great power in that. There is great power in multiplication. That is why I ask you to give your life to helping a group go from one group to two.
| How to Motivate Your Teachers to Attend a Double Your Class ConferenceI have over 40 conferences scheduled for the fall. Perhaps some of them are not too far from you. If you would like to motivate the teachers in your church to attend, I would like to suggest two things. Both of these things are based on a simple premise. The big barrier in promoting almost anything is familiarity. People who don't like country music will go to a country music concert if they are familiar with the artist. People like to see people they are familiar with. Conversely, if you try to persuade people that someone they have never heard of is really worthy of giving up and evening to listen to, it is a bit of a sell. People think they are in the know. They assume if someone were any good, they would have heard of them. Both of these strategies, therefore, are based on building familiarity. The first thing you can do is add your teachers to this list. If people get this email each week, it will build the kind of familiarity that will warm them to want to attend a conference. You can add them directly at this address, or email me a list to josh@joshhunt.com. Even if all your teachers are not on Email, it will help to get the ones who are. They will become familiar and will tell their friends. This list is easy to get on and easy to get off. The unsubscribe button on the bottom of each E-mail really does work. Still, if you are uncomfortable adding them to the list, forward your copy. The second thing you can do to build familiarity is to pass out the lessons that I produce each week. They are available for free and correspond to Lifeway's Explore the Bible Series and Family Bible Series. The best case scenario is to actually make copies and give them to your teachers each week. When I go to churches that do these two things consistently several months before the conference, attendance is never a problem.
People with a big view of God have small problems. People with a small view of God have big problems. We are fighting today for a people who have a big view of God. People who have a big view of God do great things for God. They have great joy in God and great energy for God. The great need of the hour is a people whose hearts are full with a big, big view of God. The God We Enjoy is a 13 week Interactive Video designed to enlarge people's view of God. In this video, we highlight 13 attributes of God and concentrate on how we can enjoy Him through each of these 13 attributes.
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