Why Make Disciples One-on-One?
Changes in society, religious education, family, and the Church require that what happened organically within thick social/cultural settings of an earlier age (perhaps) now must be done deliberately.
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.
One-Time Conversion or Ongoing Transformation?
As Catholics we sometimes recoil at this kind of talk. Our experience grounds us in a more communal, sacramental, and gradual process of initiation rites and sanctification, beginning at baptism and maturing throughout life.
An Exercise in Noticing
If you don’t really know someone, how can you truly love him/her? Do you know his/her answers to the following questions? Perhaps take them to prayer.
Preparing Good Questions
Good questions are a critical ingredient in all great discussions. Jesus himself was the master questioner, often responding to questions with deeper questions.
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.
Evangelizing through Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving
Here are our top 5 evangelical Lenten resolutions for 2017, directly from EC Staff:
Lenten Reflection 2016
So, I’m going to reflect on just that: my own poverty. And what a perfect time Lent is to experience and reflect on our own spiritual poverty.
I Dreamt that My Son Died – A Good Friday Meditation
It seems eminently clear that the more perfect one’s love is, the more pain lies in wait. The longer couples date, the more the break-up hurts.
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.
