Back in May 2013, I was featured on Rick Howerton’s Blog with NavPress for a four day interview on “Small Groups or Mid-Size Communities?” He has since joined the staff at LifeWay, and thus the previous posts have gone away. Here’s the last post:
4. What does a mid-size group meeting look like and how often do these groups meet?
Imagine how it would feel like if you belonged to a community…
- Where love was a verb and was characterized by action, rather than shallow words that didn’t do or mean anything?
- Where blessing each other wasn’t a second thought, but it was a normal part of our daily schedule?
- Where apathy and indifference wasn’t the normal attitude, but we were all filled with passion, filled with God’s Spirit, filled with his strength, and where everything we did was towards serving one another and Jesus?
Can you see this? Can you imagine this sort of community? Can you taste it?
I mean, just imagine what it would feel like to belong to a community where no one had any need? Where the community was more about giving to one another, than taking from one another? Just imagine if you belonged to a community that did not just meet each other’s needs, but also the needs of the outsider…of the stranger?
This is what mid-size communities are all about.
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