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Disciple-Making Small Groups Marry Mission and Values
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When Jesus commanded his followers to “make disciples,” it was a call to mission as a lifestyle (Matthew 28:18-20). The way we are instructed to ‘make’ more followers & learners of Christ is by baptizing them and teaching them to obey everything Jesus has told us to do. The word “teach” in The Great Commission involves more than verbal instruction (v. 20a). It involves the whole person and the whole of life.
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Discipleship – When Fruit Gets in the Way
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As a small group pastor, I sometimes feel that we have taken Jesus’ words in Matthew and retranslated them to say, “Go into the world and make intimate small group experiences for everyone.” Another one would be, “Go into the world and build an organizational flowchart for ministry, with small groups as the assimilation plan.”
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Teaching Small Group Members How to Pray
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The small group my husband and I led shared prayer needs at the end of each meeting. Jeff or I usually asked if one or two people wanted to pray for the prayer requests. Tony and Brooke, a young married couple, had been in our group for a few short months. Brooke had come to Christ a few years earlier, but Tony had only been a Christ follower for a short period of time. He was a friendly guy but was very quiet, and I was sensitive to the fact that the entire church scene was a completely new experience for him.
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Midsize groups and Small groups … Perfect Together!
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I know what some of you are thinking, “Sunday school is dead, and we ain’t going back!” Well, I agree with you! The current state of many Sunday schools can best be described as “petrified” more than disciple-making. They have been reduced to slapping a few prayer requests on the board and quickly transitioning to a long (boring) lecture. These classes have no vision, virtually no ministry happening, and minimal spiritual growth is evident. I do not want that either.
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