- Reminder
- Admonishment
- Resources for Group
Reminder:
I know that each CG (Connect Group) is on a different episode, but make sure you go over last weeks Out of the Comfort Zone Activity with your group.
- Please fill out you 3 month attendance sheets an your Connect Group Report. Hand them in on Sunday Morning. Or, you can go to the bottom of the blog, and in the comments area, give the answers as follows. (Just type the response to the info below.)
- Connect Group Report;
- Small Group Name:
- Date:
- Subject Discussed:
- Total Number in Group:
- Number of new people:
- Have you followed up with people missing in your group? Yes or No
- Have you encouraged your group between meetings? Yes or No
- Have you followed up with those that were new? Yes or No
- Comments, Concerns, Issues:
- Attendance:
- Name of those attended
- Name of those not attended
- Admonish each memeber to fulfill the OCZA (Out of the Comfort Zone) , this is important to the whole of the study.
- If they didn't not do the OCZA for that week, ask why, and then admonish them to do it.
- Remember your role as an Overseer is to:
- 2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful doctrine.
- Prepared: be ready
- Reprove: to call to account, show one his fault, demand an explanation
- Rebuke: charge one with wrong
- Encourage: to admonish, exhort
- It is important to understand that you ARE NOT CALLED to just facilitate at "Bible Study", but you are called to teach by virtue of correcting, rebuking, and encouraging. Basically, confront wrong thinking and action (tearing down) and then encourage right thinking (through Biblical instruction from the Word) which leads to right desires, that in turn produce right action. (fruit)
Admonishment:
- Do not neglect daily soul care (DSC). Prayer and time in the Word is vital not only to your growth and stability in the faith, but it also makes you a sound a proficient minister. Without DSC you flounder in your faith and become an inefficient leader. DSC is also imperative to the spiritual growth of your Connect Group.
- How can we tell the difference between a true cell group and all the other small groups and programs within a church?
- Spiritual Growth: The Cell helps people to grow in Christ by equipping them through sound teaching from Scripture. Cells are not just a social gathering that focus on fellowship, refreshments, and Bible curriculum. Cells must transform people for them to be effective.
- 2 Peter 2:1-2 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. Like newborn infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation. You CAN'T grow, if you DON'T know.
- Community: Intimacy - The New Testament house churches were small and organic. True community as defined in Scripture can only truly be built in Small Groups.
- Evangelism: Cells must have a purpose outside of themselves. Cells should be a place where EVERY Christian learns to share the Gospel with non-Christians. Cell Groups and Share Groups (Share Groups being individuals in a Cell Group going out and reaching the lost) normally meet outside the church building to reach people where they work and live. Basically Obeying the Command to go into all the World and preach the Gospel. Again, this is what separates the Cell groups from other small groups. We want to get away from “come and see” strategy, and get into the Biblical mindset of “we’ll go into the World... where you work and live” strategy. At the heart of the cell strategy is evangelistic penetration.
- Multiplication: Cells are born to multiply. The DNA of the cell is to give birth to another cell or daughter cell. The goal isn’t necessarily multiplication in itself. The goal is to make disciples who make disciples. A disciple must first be formed in the cell environment before multiplication can take place. Reproduction occurred all the time in the New Testament as house churches multiplied throughout the known World. (Acts 2:46-47).
Resources for Group:
Video:
- Lesson 2 The Mirror of the 10 Commandments
- Lesson 3 The Motive of the Sinner
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