Enjoying Your Small Group
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The document emphasizes the importance of community, trust, and loving one another, referencing biblical passages to encourage engagement and commitment within small groups. It highlights the necessity of accepting diverse individuals and spurring each other toward good deeds while maintaining regular gatherings. The text also invites readers to reflect on their readiness to trust, accept, and commit to others in their community.
Enjoying Your Small Group
- 1. Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another -- and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
- 7. It’s not easy to trust. John 2:24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men.
- 8. We all have our reasons not to trust. Acts 9:26 When he (Saul) came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he really was a disciple.
- 9. But we must all learn to trust. Acts 9:27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus.
- 10. Can you be a Barnabas to someone? Acts 9:27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus.
- 12. People are all different. 1 Corinthians 12:14 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many.
- 13. But God has all put us together. 1 Corinthians 12:18 But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.
- 14. We cannot reject anyone. 1 Corinthians 12:21 The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!"
- 15. We must love everyone. 1 Corinthians 12:31b And now I will show you the most excellent way… … love (1 Cor 13)
- 17. Commit your time. Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another -- and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
- 18. Commit your talents. Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another -- and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
- 19. Commit your treasures. Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another -- and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
- 20. Your small group experience can only be as great as what you put in it. Invest yourself in a small group.
- 21. Get a partner and answer these questions… Are you ready to… TRUST others? ACCEPT people as they are? COMMIT yourself to a small group? What is hindering you from doing any of these things? How can I pray for you?