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Principles of Group Closure: Good Closure Makes For Good Beginnings
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Healthy closure of any group experience is extremely important. Good closure to group life help members process and define their experience. More can be learned from a group experience if that experience is remembered and understood. Good closure of the existing group sets the stage for a good experience in the new group. Successful closure is based around positive reflection of the group experience and casting a vision for new groups.
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The "Us Four and No More!" Syndrome
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God created living organisms to go through life cycles. Jesus used these life cycles to illustrate points in many of His parables.
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Open Or Closed? What Really Matters
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Well…it is Thursday night and the gang is gathering again. Not sure what will happen, things are pretty open and agendas are floating. We are trying to understand what it means to be church right now…right here.
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Compel or Expel?
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Keeping in mind Christ's command to go into the streets and compel people to come hear the gospel, it seems audacious to exclude anyone from a small group. In most situations, I believe newcomers and visitors should be welcomed with open arms.
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Teaching for Life Change
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"Daddy, I dreamed last night that when I grow up, I would be just like you!" These were the words whispered in my ear a couple of years ago by our 7-year-old son.
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Small Groups - Dead or Alive
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There is something terribly wrong in many of today’s small groups. Part of the problem is that they are dead. But, believe it or not, that’s not the biggest problem.
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Moving from Teaching to Obedience
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A life reflecting biblical obedience could be described as one who loves God with his whole heart, soul and mind, and loves his neighbor as himself. By definition biblical obedience is submission or adherence to biblical principles.
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Hearing and Obeying
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I love education. I’ve dedicated my life to learning. But I must constantly remind myself that learning should never become an end in itself. The end or goal is obeying God’s Word, thus giving glory to His name.
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Charting the Journey
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My mother is a college professor in the discipline called Child Development. When our daughter Sarah was young, we would often call my mom with urgency in our voice, "Is it natural for Sarah to act like this?"
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Going to Seed
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Young plants sprout from a seed and then go through a process of establishing their own roots. At anytime during that process plants are challenged by many different factors: poor soil, weeds, lack of water, or people.
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