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| The Sticky Church Advantage | |
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| Sticky Church | |
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| Why the front door is highly overrated | |
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| A parable lots of people know but not many understand | |
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| Why stickiness is so important | |
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| The purpose and format of this book | |
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| Who Are These Guys? | |
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| Why it might not matter if your church stinks at marketing | |
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| Small leaks, big messes, and church growth | |
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| Come and see evangelism | |
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| The 80 percent factor | |
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| Scalability and slow growth | |
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| How I Learned about the Importance and Power of Stickiness | |
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| Killing the dream - and why it was one of the best things I ever did | |
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| Tools or sheep? | |
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| Pastors who don't like Christians | |
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| Why marketing too early can actually keep people away | |
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| Why Stickier Churches Are Healthier Churches | |
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| Why closing the back door can make the front door seem bigger | |
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| The tell-tale mark of a raving fan | |
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| The high price of bait and switch | |
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| How one seeker church made sure no one brought any seekers | |
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| How Small Groups Change Everything | |
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| Velcroed for Growth | |
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| Why most of our discipleship models don't work very well | |
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| How people grow | |
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| Velcroed for growth | |
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| Why the New Testament is absolutely silent about small groups | |
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| How Small Groups Change Everything | |
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| Critical mass-why it's so important and what it takes to get there | |
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| The Holy Man myth | |
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| The Holy Place myth | |
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| Why empowerment needs a platform | |
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| Still More Ways That Small Groups Change Everything | |
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| Why small groups make a church more honest and transparent | |
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| Why they always increase the level and practice of spiritual disciplines | |
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| The very best gift we can give a child or teenager | |
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| Making the Message Memorable: How Sermon-Based Small Groups Made Me a Much Better Preacher | |
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| A bunch of stuff that didn't work and the one change that did | |
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| The simplest way to increase attention and note taking | |
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| Why my sermons are always worth talking about | |
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| Four stages of knowledge and why lots of people tend to bail out before they're finished | |
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| Making the Message Accessible: How Sermon-Based Small Groups Made Us a Much Better Church | |
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| Reeling in the marginally interested | |
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| Why it doesn't matter why someone joins a group | |
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| Why even the unmotivated will spend an hour preparing for their small group | |
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| Facilitators and teachers | |
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| The death of idiot questions | |
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| Sermon-Based Small Groups | |
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| Why Some Groups Jell and Some Don't | |
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| Why size matters | |
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| Comfort zones | |
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| The "me too" factor | |
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| The magic number when attendance becomes predictably sporadic | |
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| Getting the right people in the right group | |
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| The difference between Christian unity and close friendships | |
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| Schooling fish | |
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| Why people are like Legos | |
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| Why friendly people can leave new people feeling frustrated | |
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| New groups for new people | |
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| Why dividing to grow might not be such a good idea | |
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| Flies on the Wall: What Happens When a Sermon-Based Small Group Meets | |
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| Why there is no such thing as a "typical" sermon-based small group | |
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| Refreshments and personal updates | |
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| Why it's vitally important that everyone answers their homework questions ahead of time | |
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| Three types of questions | |
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| Why silly questions can be important questions | |
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| Why you always want to look at some passages that weren't mentioned in the sermon | |
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| Prayer | |
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| Freedom to digress | |
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| Worship | |
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| Service projects and socials | |
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| Overcoming the Time Crunch | |
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| Why most of us have just two time slots to work with | |
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| The difference between selling out and adapting wisely | |
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| Why cutting the competition is so important | |
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| What Henry Ford taught me about small groups | |
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| Cutting too much too fast can be hazardous to your ministry | |
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| Hamstringing the competition | |
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| Making leadership manageable | |
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| Why summer breaks are essential for long term success | |
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| Determining Your Primary Purpose | |
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| Determining your primary goal | |
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| What happens when everyone uses a different measuring rod | |
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| Alignment | |
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| What we can learn from Wall Street and LA Fitness | |
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| Making disciples | |
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| Staying healthy | |
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| The need for warmth | |
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| The dangers of mission creep | |
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| Measuring success | |
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| Entry Points and Escape Routes | |
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| My first small group | |
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| The dreaded weasel factor | |
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| Entry ramps and escape routes | |
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| Why ten weeks is nearly magical | |
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| How groups grow deeper | |
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| What happens when life happens | |
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| What happens when it doesn't | |
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| Aligning sermon series and small group schedules-why it's no big deal | |
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| Why Dividing Groups Is a Dumb Idea | |
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| What most church leaders think | |
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| Why those who are actually in a small group see it so differently | |
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| Small groups and steroids | |
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| Another look at Legos | |
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| What the military taught me about small groups | |
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| Mayberry in San Diego | |
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| Fresh blood | |
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| Hiving versus dividing | |
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| Finding and Developing Leaders | |
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| What to look for | |
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| Who to avoid | |
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| The best fishing pools | |
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| The worst fishing pools | |
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| Why you don't want to ask for volunteers | |
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| How to scare off potential leaders | |
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| Training Leaders | |
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| Why staff members and lay leaders see training so differently | |
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| Bite-sized training | |
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| Time shifting | |
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| Why turning down the intensity won't harm your leaders or your groups-and why it might help | |
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| What every rookie needs to know | |
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| The one thing every veteran leader needs to know | |
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| Why Cho's Model Didn't Work in Your Church | |
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| Why most of our small group models don't work very well | |
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| The Korean connection | |
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| Coming to America | |
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| A nagging question, a surprising answer | |
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| Why my parents won't walk into the Buddhist temple | |
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| Prayer Mountain, military coups, and powerful pastors | |
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| What a mobile society, extended families, Armenians, and mutts have in common-and what they don't | |
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| Before You Start: Five Key Questions | |
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| What a poorly aligned set of tires can teach about vision and ministry | |
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| Who are you trying to reach? | |
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| What are you trying to accomplish? | |
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| How do these two match up? | |
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| The funnel test | |
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| Mentoring, education, and apprenticeships | |
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| Speed modeling | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Writing Great Questions | |
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| Sample Sermon Note Sheet and Study Questions | |
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| Sample Growth Group Covenant | |
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| End-of-the-Quarter Evaluation Form | |
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| Leader Training Topics | |
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| Leader Responsibilities | |
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| Host Responsibilities | |
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| A List of New Testament "One Anothers" | |
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| Study Guide: Follow-up Questions for Each Chapter | |
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| Notes | |