Baptism - What Are You Waiting For?

This Sunday was our open baptism service.

Did any of your group members get baptized?

If so, take some time to celebrate with them in your Community Group meeting.

Sign a card, make a cake or dessert, buy some balloons, and celebrate what God is doing in their lives.

You could have group members share something they love or are encouraged by from this person’s life. You could also spend time praying for each person who got baptized.

Overflow

This weeks discussion focuses on the story of the woman at the well from John 4.

As Christians, our lives are centered around the story of Jesus as told in the scriptures. This is a great opportunity to read a long portion of scripture and reflect on it together.

To accompany your reading of scripture, one idea to change up group this week, would be to also watch this story imagined through the TV Mini-Series The Chosen.

Your group could read the passage together, and watch this clip of that scene or the whole episode, and then discuss the passage together.

How to Share Your Faith

Do you have group members who are considering baptism?

Our Open Baptism Service is in 2 weeks, on February 11th.

Encourage them to take that step and register for our Open Baptism service.

Sunday’s message was all about sharing our faith and a big part of that is prayer.

Not only should we share the names of people in group that we are praying would come to know Christ, but make sure to take time in group to specifically pray for each of those people.

What Makes Christianity Compelling?

If You didn’t get a chance last week to cast vision for your group by talking about the purpose of groups (Apply the Bible, Build Relationships, Care for Each other), vision (to invite others and multiply in the future), volunteer schedules, and the group agreement, you’ll find those included in this weeks discussion questions.

If you didn’t get a chance to set growth goals last week, be sure to take some time in your group to do that this week.

Does Your Heart Break?

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.

This is a great time to remind your group of why we do groups (Apply the Bible, Build Relationships, Care for Each Other) and that we are not just meeting for ourselves, but we want to invite others into our Community Groups.

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.

When Your Faith Is Stale

This is the last week of the Winter Community Group Break.

Groups begin meeting agains January 14th.

As you prepare for the new Community Group Trimester, make sure to do these 6 things to prepare for a healthy start to a new groups year.