A Church That Is A Work In Progress

This Sunday’s message is all about our own spiritual growth, looking more like Christ.

If your group has yet to set growth goals, or someone in your group missed that opportunity, this is a great week to talk about those goals together as you seek to grow in your faith.

Print out the Growth Goal forms and bring them to your group, then have your group pair up to checkin with each other during the week on your progress.

How Can I Change? Part 2 - Community

Included below are Week 1 details to cover with your group, like the group agreement, volunteer schedules, growth goal ideas, and an overview of how groups work to help new people get acquainted with group. The notes also include the sermon discussion questions for this week.

You may also want to just spend this week catching up and discussing your groups plans for this trimester, especially if your group plans will look different than a typical trimester.

HAVE YOU OPENED YOUR BEYOND BOX YET?

As you regather with your group, take 20-30 minutes together to open the box and explore opportunities to serve together. We've received a lot of positive feedback about the experience.

After you open the box, make sure to go to iwant.info to take your next step.

Soul Food

As we discuss this sermon series on rhythms this may be a good opportunity to review your Growth Goals with your group members and how each of you are progressing.

There are just 3 weeks left of our Community Group trimester.

2018.05.06 - Drew Karschner - "Soul Food" Part 1 of the "Sacred Rhythms" series When it comes to following Christ, most of what we know about who God is and what He wants for us it built upon one source: the Bible. But how much do we value God’s holy and flawless Word? Is it something we can’t live without, or have we become numb to its power? Spending time in God’s word is a rhythm in life we can’t afford to live without. John 5:39

The Slumbering Church - Sardis

If you haven't had a chance to pass out End of the Trimester Feedback Forms, please print these out and bring them to your Community Group to fill out during group this week.  You could also bring a 3x5 card and ask people to share thoughts on those cards and give then to you as leaders at the end of group. 

2017.11.12 - Drew Karschner - "The Slumbering Church - Sardis" In today’s culture it's easy to put on a smile and act like everything is OK, when you are truly falling apart inside. We wear facades and put on plastic faces. Jesus calls out the church in Sardis for pretending to be alive when it was actually dying. This should serve as a powerful reminder to us all to keep alert or we can slowly fall into the trap of thinking that we are spiritually alive, when we are really dead. Revelation 3