We recommended two ways to sustain positive momentum: (1) Focus on vision and mission and (2) Building relationships. In Life Groups, we achieve these foci by living missionally and by knowing each other’s story. I want to illustrate the connection of these points by simply telling a story from my life…if you’ve been to the new leader training, you’ve already heard it. Sorry.
About two and half years into four years of Seminary, my family and I were still very unsure what we were going to do when we finished. Then one weekend a couple of my best buddies came to visit. I didn’t think of them as “unchurched secular minded people”, they were just my friends, but I did know that they were antagonistic to Christianity and Church. Continue Reading…
