Empowered to Pastor: Video-based Learning for Small Group Based Churches (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781950069613)

Do you sense that your church has potential for deeper discipleship-but you're not sure how to lead it there?
Are your small groups active, yet disconnected from a clear mission?
Do you want a church structure that actually forms disciples instead of simply managing programs?

After decades of coaching pastors and churches around the world, Joel Comiskey has seen firsthand what helps small group-based churches thrive-and what quietly limits their fruitfulness. In Empowered to Pastor, he shares a clear, biblical, and practical framework for leading a church built around disciple-making communities.

Empowered to Pastor is a pastor-focused guide designed to help leaders understand how to guide a small group-based church toward long-term health, multiplication, and mission. Across twenty-one focused chapters, Comiskey addresses the essential theological foundations and practical systems needed to build a church where small groups are central-not peripheral.

By applying these principles, pastors gain clarity, churches gain alignment, and discipleship becomes intentional rather than accidental.

• Ground small group ministry biblically, so structure flows from Scripture, not trends

• Lead a healthy transition from traditional models to a small group-based church

• Equip and mobilize members so ministry is shared, not centralized

• Coach leaders effectively to ensure care, accountability, and multiplication

• Integrate children and youth into the life of small groups, strengthening the whole church

Each chapter includes a short training video, discussion questions, online resources, and a downloadable PowerPoint, making this resource ideal for pastors, leadership teams, cohorts, and ministry training environments.

Empowered to Pastor is your practical playbook for leading a small group-based church that makes disciples, develops leaders, and advances God's mission with clarity and confidence.

If you value biblical foundations, practical church leadership, and reproducible disciple-making systems, you'll appreciate Joel Comiskey's field-tested and pastoral approach.

Buy Empowered to Pastor today and begin leading your church toward deeper discipleship and lasting fruit.