Small Groups And The Program Mentality

Small Groups in Your Church: A Way to Develop Community or "Just Another Program"?

By Jim Petersen, assistant to the general director for The s in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and longtime small group leader.Church culture basically operates by a set of programs.This "program mentality" is a tradition that began with the early Christians. In order to keep track of the fast-growing church, early Christians created a hierarchy—training