Launching a Small Group Discussion
Before you start asking your small group any of the three types of questions, help the group warm up by planning a launching discussion.
EC Impact: Warren
“EC training has helped me to be more comfortable and confident in sharing my faith in an organic way.”
EC Impact: Kristen
“These one-on-ones helped me to recognize Jesus’ love for me for the first time and taught me that someone cared enough to share this with me and teach me.”
EC Impact: Colleen
“God is truly reaching more in this work.”
How Small Groups Build a Movement
Small groups work because they are rooted in relationships, not in organizational structures or edifices. Within the relationships people want and need, they find what they didn’t know they lacked: Jesus and the Church.
Seek the Lord in the Bible Every Day… Seriously!
Mark Rose wrote in our last EC blog entry about how we hunger for connection to people and to God. I know that I hunger for a lot of things, especially affirmation and security. We experience a constant state of need until we see God face to face.
Holistic Love: Seeking Integrity as a Child of God
Excluding maybe a couple of extraordinary instances, I think it is fair to say that a broken world begets broken people.
The Great Commission
I am not against theological and apologetic formation – both are tremendously important; rather, I am saying that Jesus wanted our formation to include so much more.
Pope Francis is an Evangelical! Part III
Our Purpose is to Bear Fruit: “The Church exists to evangelize.” (Evangelization of the Modern World, Pope Paul VI)
Pope Francis is an Evangelical! Part II
What Benedict taught eloquently in encyclicals and exhortations, Francis lives dramatically, making the content of our faith come alive.