Well... I don't really have a Sunday Six this week. Yeah the toilet flushed again.... but everything rolling around in my mind this week is either really churchy or still in the rumination stage and to share it would be premature and could be really messy... kind of like llama spit or a cow's cud...
I can share one thing... Lifegroups.... Vince posted a blog about whether or not we "need" small groups. Referencing another church that has grown to 1000 and doesn't have any form of a small group ministry. They have ministry teams and interest groups but no real small group ministry. It makes me really nervous. It's certainly easier and fits into our culture to avoid having to get involved in other people's lives on any significant level... but if left to my own I tend to grow more self-centered and selfish. Living for my own desires. In fact I begin to view others as if they exist for my benefit. Like God put them on the earth for ME... I think our culture tends to reinforce such thinking and it's not only wrong... it's sin! I NEED LIFE WITH OTHERS. I'm sort of introverted when it comes to social interaction but I NEED to do life with others. It helps me love. I moves me beyond a ME focus... and that's just one of the many other reasons doing life with others matters. I won't list them all but more than ever in my life I understand just how important it is that we do life together. God built us that way and outside of His plan we drift into a meaningless existence.
Check out a post by Jeff Gibson titled "A Church Without Small Groups".
Posted by: Amy Koenigseder | April 29, 2009 at 08:48 PM