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Sandro DiSabatino
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 Community Life & Mobilization Specialist, I partner with individuals, groups and organizations to provide consultation, inspiration and resources to help them accomplish their mission.
Currently serving as the Director of CORE Ministries
PORTICO (formerly MGT Family Church), a community church
Mississauga, ON Canada
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Articles by this Author
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Small Groups Simply Don’t Work
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You are absolutely right. They do not work if you are talking about small groups as a program of the church, a way to grow your church, a popular alternative to Sunday school, or one of the many ministry options offered on the local church menu.
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Love Like That
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We live in the land of ‘ism’s. Starting with capital-ism, discovering plural-ism, fighting terror-ism, demonstrating fanatic-ism, seeking relativ-ism, tolerating sex-ism, striving for altru-ism, sustaining ideal-ism, and all the while trying to maintain optim-ism in our country, our church, our home and finally in our own mind.
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Show Me the Way
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You’ve got the purpose-driven church, the seeker-sensitive church, the connecting church, the emerging church, the simple church, the irresistible influence church, and the missional church to mention only a few of the most popular ways of organizing the church to be on mission with God. So which is it? Let me guess your answer. It’s none of the above. You’ve attended the latest seminar, bought the latest leadership handbook, got the T-Shirt, and you’re still stuck holding your Starbucks and asking yourself, “I wonder how long this new thing will last? Is that really what I need – another new thing, or should I be showing people a new way?”
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Lift Off! - The Power of Alignment
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We recognize the power of alignment whenever a group of people is willing to divest themselves of self-determined outcomes and invest their talents, will, and energy in a common direction to accomplish a common goal. If your goal is to make disciples that multiply ministry through relationships, then you will want to harness the power of alignment in your church. This does not necessarily mean that everyone attending your church on Sundays will be forever locked into a sermon-based small group series similar to the 40 Days of Purpose by Rick Warren. What we have done to bring the power of alignment to our church family is to extract some of the principles and lessons learned from similar sermon-based small group series and combine them with an annual ministry rhythm that is informed by a common church culture.
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