… While the recent growth of the small group movement in America has been phenomenal, …
based small group participants were distributed fairly equally across all sizes of congregations (…

… small group participation at individual and congregation … congregations and individuals
from the US Congregational Life Study (n = 82,044), we find that: (1) individual-level small group …

… view congregations as objective social structures possessing … look at congregational contexts
and small groups. Using … whether congregations with greater levels of overall small group …

… congregation with small groups in certain societal contexts. In these contexts the small group
… within the small and ‘whole’ church group meeting structure. Moreover, for it to really work, …

… who do not belong to a small group.Other researchers found that small groups in churches
enhance racial-ethnic diversity,6 promote congregational growth7 and have positive effects …

… of the structure of social relations between small groups and the larger organizations within
which such groups are … This project examines small groups within sponsoring congregations, …

… Wuthnow makes the provocative point that the small-group … shoring up the status quo: small
groups "reflect the fluidity of … needs and institutional structures, small groups, by claiming to …

… the small group who help form my practice of ministry: My wife, Vida, who has been my faith
partner in many small groups … In sensing the vacuum of personal presence this congregation …

… groups are embodied in our small group ministries, smaller … structure begins to disintegrate.
We witness the organizational structure of a congregation shifting when a ministry group hits …

… It may well be, as we shall see later, this limit is too high to produce the effects Troeltsch,
Weber, and Simmel had in mind when they spoke of the necessity of small groups. Simmel, …