Small Groups
Why Small Groups?
Consider for a Moment...
If we could all be completely transparent for a moment, which one of us would not give much of what we have if we could come to that place of experiencing love on Jesus’ terms?
Why Does MCF exist?
MCF exists so that people will come to know God their Father and make Him known to others who need to find their way home to the Father’s House, and this purpose is more fully expressed as enabling people to live out the six purposes of the Father’s House:
1. LOVE God their Father.
2. LEAD others HOME.
3. LONG to be like Jesus.
4. LEARN Good Life Management.
5. LIVE in Authentic Relationships.
6. LAUGH to last.
So Why Small Groups?
The purpose of small groups is to combine what we all long for (a place of acceptance, security, growth, and significance—a home) with the six purposes of the Father’s House. Small groups help us flow from understanding our purpose as a church family to fulfilling our purpose as individuals. Small groups provide non-churched people, new believers, growing disciples, and leaders with opportunities to love and be loved, know and be known, serve and be served, admonish and be admonished, influence and be influenced, celebrate and be celebrated. Small groups help transform a traditional church structure into an authentic community.
The Necessity of Small Groups: 3 Reasons For Small Groups
1. In order to be a biblical church
· God exists in community—
Hear O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One. Deut. 6.4
Then God said, “Let Us make man in our image, in our likeness.” Gen. 1:26
The bible reveals God as one God, eternally existent in three persons. This is the doctrine of the Trinity. The community (oneness, authentic and intimate relationship), shared between God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit is a theological reality. We, being created in God’s image, were created for the same kind of community.
· Christ lived in community —Jesus spent most of His time in the small group setting of the twelve disciples
· Jesus prayed that his followers would live in community [John 17:11;20-21]
· It is the New Testament pattern for the church—
And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer... breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart. Acts 2.42-46
2. In order to be a healthy church
1. Cause – The vision
2. Community – Those living together to fulfill the vision
3. Corporation – The management of that vision
· All three of these areas need to be in balance or the church will never fulfill its mission. If the vision of our church is to see biblical healthy and growing relationships with God, self, others and things then providing a place where that can occur is essential! True Biblical community can only occur in intimate relationships – can only occur in small groups!
3. In order to be a growing church
· Numerical growth: It’s been said that “people will not care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Small Groups ensure that everyone is cared for, but no one has to care for too many
· Spiritual Growth: Small Groups are MCF’s main method of discipleship in the equipping pathway—helping people discover, deploy and develop their gifts and ministries and to live as fully devoted followers of Christ.
Be Biblical
Be Healthy
Be Growing
Join A Small Group
To Join a Small Group:
Sign up for a Small Group at the back of the church on any Sunday; or Call Meagan Hicks (MCF Administration) for more information: (780) 939-2987
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