Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups

Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups by Nelson Searcy and Thomas Kerrick is not a book for everyone.  The last few months I have been devouring books on small groups.  I certainly haven't read everything there is to read but I've had a pretty good sampling.  This book is really a nuts and bolts kind of book about how to oversee a small group church ministry.  Like any good church publication they have a catchy alliterative hook: Focus, Form, Fill and Facilitate.  Their small groups fun in semesters and very little of it was applicable to the church where I serve.  What I did like about the book was how detailed their administrative approach to small groups was.  Ideally every church member had a small group leader, each small group leader had someone they were accountable to, and each of those folks was accountable to the small group minister, the only paid staff member of the bunch.  I also liked how each level of the small group system only had four responsibilities.  They weren't trying to overload anyone in the system with tasks.  So.....if you share my passion for the logistics of small group ministry, maybe worth a read, if not, not.