Introduction
1. This is a variation on a quote attributed to Henry Ford (“Vision without execution is just hallucination”) and Thomas Edison (“Vision without execution is hallucination”), as well as a Japanese proverb (“Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare”).
2. Steve Gladen, Small Groups with Purpose (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012), available at www.SmallGroups.net/store.
3. Thom S. Rainer, “Eight Major Changes in Churches the Past Ten Years,” Growing Healthy Churches Together, May 10, 2017, www.thomrainer.com/2017/05/eight-major-changes-in-churches-the-past-ten-years.
Chapter 1 Think Churchwide
Chapter 3 Lead Effectively
1. Inspired by Doug Fields, Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry: A Personal and Practical Guide to Starting Right (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 37–38.
Chapter 5 The Kitchen
1. See also Steve’s podcast, “7 Ways to Lead Effective Small Group Ministry When Your Pastor May Not Be on Board,” www.blog.SmallGroupNetwork.com/pastorbuyin.
2. Cade Metz, “Mark Zuckerberg’s Answer to a World Divided by Facebook Is More Facebook,” Wired Business, February 16, 2017, www.wired.com/2017/02/mark-zuckerbergs-answer-world-divided-facebook-facebook.
3. “Calculating Migration Expectancy Using ACS Data,” United States Census Bureau, accessed January 16, 2018, https://www.census.gov/topics/population/migration/guidance/calculating-migration-expectancy.html.
4. Gretchen Livingston, “Fewer Than Half of U.S. Kids Today Live in a ‘Traditional’ Family,” Pew Research Center, December 22, 2014, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/22/less-than-half-of-u-s-kids-today-live-in-a-traditional-family.
5. Steve Gladen, Leading Small Groups with Purpose (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012), available at www.SmallGroups.net/store.
Chapter 9 The Dining Room
1. I list over a hundred worship ideas for small groups in my books 250 Big Ideas for Small Group Leaders and Leading Small Groups with Purpose, both available at www.SmallGroups.net/store.