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Boring Messages & Boring Small Groups

Problem: Complaints about messages & studies are boring
Symptoms include: complaints of meetings, studies, and messages being boring or irrelevant.
The most common cause next to not understanding the audience: Covering too much information makes it hard to be relevant.

This generation of Asian Americans are not impressed by what you know. (Many of them are at the top of their class and a large number of them have or will receive professional or advanced degrees.) They live in an age where rapid internet growth makes information very accessible and inexpensive. It's not that leaders say the wrong things, but it's a matter of how much they say and how they say it to show relevancy. To capture the attention and minds of Asian Americans today, messages & studies need to show how Biblical truths apply to their daily lives. Here's a suggestion to the speakers and small group leaders. Reduce the quantity of information presented by half and spend the time saved by reinforcing the truths taught by emphasizing how it correlates to their everyday life.

Belief should lead to behavior change and information should lead to transformation, however, the traditional method hasn't been working for many Christians in this culture. Simply look at the divorce rate or premarital sex rate between Christians and non-Christians. They're pretty much the same!

*An unseen benefit of this teaching model is that it makes it simplier, faster, and easier for new believers to create reproducing disciples. Read Born to Reproduce by Dawson Trotmon for more information.