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Balance is the Strength!
The strength of the Sunday School movement is found
in the balance between biblical community and
biblical content
Biblical Community
Biblical Content
Step Two Process Ratio Rating
“Where culture and circumstances make an on-campus ministry like Sunday School possible, it is hard to beat in terms of helping a maximum number of people actually move from Step One to Step Two in a disciple-making process.”
Rainer & Geiger, Simple Church
Step Two Process Ratio Rating
1. Average Worship Attendance
2. Average in Sunday School
3. Divide Step Two by Step One
< 70% = Healthy Ratio
Great Expectations
Sunday School
1. Expects new people every week.
2. Expects people to say “yes.”
3. Expects classes to reproduce.
Expect New People Every Week!
Every week may be somebody’s first week.
If it’s not a good week, they may not ever come back for a second week...
Expect New People Every Week!
If you expect new people every week, what are
some things you will do
BEFORE
DURING
AFTER
they visit?
Expect New People Every Week!
How sad it would be if you did all this to get ready for
company and you gave them a boxed meal you prepared
on the way to church!
Expect Classes to Reproduce!• Gather space data.
• Gather class data.
• Make sure each class is training leaders.
• Enlist leaders and members for new class.
• Provide a list of prospects for the new class.
• Involve current classes.
• Celebrate new life!
Do you expect . . .• Him to send newcomers every week?
• Participants to receive a fresh Word from Him each week?
• Members to say “yes”?
• Your Sunday School to reproduce?