Sticky Church

Leadership Network Innovation Series

By: Larry Osborne

Narrated by: Tom Parks

In Sticky Church, author and pastor Larry Osborne makes the case that closing the back door of your church is even more important than opening the front door wider. He offers a time-tested strategy for doing so: sermon-based small groups that dig deeper into the weekend message and tightly velcro members to the ministry.

It's a strategy that enabled Osborne's congregation to grow from a handful of people to one of the larger churches in the nation - without any marketing or special programming. Sticky Church tells the inspiring story of North Coast Church's phenomenal growth and offers practical tips for launching your own sermon-based small group ministry.

Topics include:

• Why stickiness is so important
• Why most of our discipleship models don't work very well
• Why small groups always make a church more honest and transparent
• What makes groups grow deeper and sticker over time

Sticky Church is an ideal book for church leaders who want to start or retool their small group ministry - and velcro their congregation to the Bible and each other.

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Clear Easy read

Simple clear concise while still thorough. I Highly recommend this book for food for thought!

Thought provoking

I really enjoyed this book. It's not a church growth book but gave some insights on how churches can grow. There were several things that stood out to me with one being the thought that EVERY SUNDAY IS A GREAT SUNDAY TO INVITE PEOPLE TO CHURCH.

Good Information - Honest

This was a good listen, and was honest about how a church really grows. It was well read, and contained a lot of great information.

Great read

Incredible read. This book gave an insight into keeping churches from falling apart and keeping them together. A recommendation for new and experienced pastors.

One example that worked

The idea and approach that worked for Larry Osborne's church, creating home groups that dig deeper into the weekly message, is a good approach that obviously worked well for his church. We considered doing the same approach after reading this book, but it was hard to argue with the current home group leaders with successful groups who did not want that level of topic control placed on their meetings. The obvious next step would be to start this approach with new groups and see how it goes from there. If/when we try this I'll try to update this review.