 SEVEN BENEFITS
YOU COULD ENJOY BY BEING PART OF OUR LIFE GROUPS:
1. Deepen your relationship with God
SG help you to grow in loving and knowing Christ no matter what level you are at. This is done through loving others, intentional training, sharing and modeling and the foundational practices of prayer, the Scriptures A worshipful, devotional life.
2. Grow personally and in community
Life Groups provide a support to help you to grow and improve
in applying Christ's principles and teaching to your life. Life Groups
are a positive community where people can bring the ideas, attitudes
and actions of their life together, seeing personal progress in faith.
3. Be Equipped for a Christ-like lifestyle Life Groups are
an encouraging environment to dream dreams and establish your personal
aims and goals for your life, family, workplace and community.
4. Discover your spiritual gifts & application Life
Groups affirm and enable all participants to discover the major spiritual
gifts (within a year) God has given them for service, ministry
and collective maturity; and encourage them to apply them in
5. Outreach
Life Groups provide opportunities for inviting friends, family, work colleagues and neighbours to non-threatening and purposeful social and spiritual times.
6. Become a Leader
Life Groups foster the growth of people and provide opportunities to move into roles of service and leadership. The raising of emerging leaders and deployment of people in ministry, leads to further ongoing coaching for all those in the Leadership Community.
7. Be organised and purposeful
Life Groups are well organised and supported by all the church leaders and annual calendar. Our Life Groups relate to planned outcomes and purpose so that everyone has the confidence there is good direction and structure & resources.
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OUTCOMES:
1. More Disciples of Jesus Christ!
2. More growing into new Life Groups
3. More Life Group Leaders Trained
4. More prepared people who discover their gifts and serve joyfully in ministries and fulfil Sod-given potential
5. A less "program"-driven church -more church-wide maturity, ministry, worship and leaders
6. More people equipped and encouraging one another to bring daily balance into our worlds all week!
SEVEN ESSENTIAL THINGS WE WILL BE DOING AS A CHURCH BY MAKING LIFE GROUPS CENTRAL IN THE LIFE OF OUR CHURCH
1. Obeying Jesus' Great Commission: making discipleship for ALL
2. Winning people to Christ and nurturing new believers
3. Giving people a safe environment to grow as people
4. Encouraging people who serve in other ministries
5. Growing the church not merely a Sunday audience.
6. Training and affirming people to know A use their gifts
7. Raising emerging leaders and coaching leaders |
