The greatest challenge facing most churches today isn’t getting people through the front door—it’s keeping them from leaving through the back door. In his new book, Larry Osborne reveals what it takes to cultivate a “sticky” church and reveals the strategy of sermon-based small groups to retain members while leading your church into even deeper levels of discipleship.
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5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by New Life Church (Petersburg, MI), August 27, 2009
I am in the process of strengthening the small group ministry at my church, and this has been a tremendous tool in the process. I would highly recommend this book for that purposes as well as your everyday bible believing Christian who is looking for a good SOLID read.
Pastor Brandon Hauser
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Cole Phillips (Austin, TX), June 29, 2009
I just finished reading my first full ebook on the Kindle. I was amazed at how fast I was able to fly through this one and I’m not sure if it was due to the format or the content, but suffice it to say that Larry Osborne’s Sticky Church was paradigm shifting for me on many levels.
Larry Osborne pastors North Coast Church in Vista, California and has grown the church from 128 people in the early 80s to now over 7000 people.
He writes that while there are some churches that are very good at getting people to come through the front door, many of them are ineffective at helping people stick around long enough to develop fully devoted followers of Christ. Sticky Church focuses on the importance of closing the back door through an effective small group ministry. I think he’s onto something.
A lot of what we’re already doing was affirmed in this book, but there were so many ideas that I received from this book that I’m excited about putting them into practice this Fall. At The Connection Church, our purpose for Connection Groups has always been to help people connect with each other in authentic relationships. That will not change. But Osborne’s ideas have given me some tools to facilitate this happening on a larger scale.
Sticky Church offers time-tested principles for recruiting and training leaders as well as practical programming ideas for churches to take their groups to the next level. If you’re a small group leader in your church, let me encourage you to get your hands on this book. Good stuff!
4.5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Richard Whiteside (Ocala, FL), January 28, 2009
As a pastor of a Contemporary Style church, I found Sticky Church to be very helpful. It was written out of experience with humility; the principals Osborne make good sense and are simple to put into to place. He even offers step by step suggestions on how to implement with very helpful appendixes.
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