Just last week I had a conversation with a church leader who wanted to add home based cell groups alongside their Sunday School strategy. I began to ask him questions: they had room to start new units, the church was open to multiple Sunday school hours and they were growing at a healthy rate.
The bottom line is he thought adding home=based cell groups would be a growth accelerator. Can't fault him for that, in fact its commendable. The problem is that off-site cell groups and sunday school can't coexist. For several years I was part of a group of consultants who related to some the largest and fastest growing churches in the country. As a group we could not find a single church that did both cell groups and sunday school well. They are two entirely different DNA's.
If you know of a church that is doing well let me know. It'll be a first
