Discipleship

lifegroups

“Come, Follow Me.”

If you said “Yes” to Jesus’ invitation to follow Him, then you are a disciple of Jesus Christ and have begun your journey of faith! But many of us struggle in our faith-journey and feel stagnant as time passes by. A couple of reasons for this: 1) WE live in an instant society and as a result we are always in a hurry. We like short commitments and want long-standing results with little investment. But Christians can’t mature under these conditions. The only path of discipleship is “a long obedience in the same direction.” (Eugene Peterson) 2) We live as lone-ranger Christians. We attend church, yet we really don’t develop deep relationships that encourage our faith. BUT, we are NOT designed to live in isolation. We were created for community, to walk our faith-journey with other disciples so that we might spur one another on toward Jesus Christ.

The purpose of LifeGroups is discipleship, to help followers of Jesus Christ to keep on following Him “heel-to-toe”. In a small group you will study the same Bible passage that will be preached on the following Sunday. It doesn’t replace the Sunday sermon, but it will enhance it! What’s great about using the Sunday sermon text as our study is that we can dig deep in the Bible passage as a group and then be more prepared to hear God as it is preached on the following Sunday.

LifeGroups provide accountability to grow in Christ in a loving and encouraging community. Following Christ is a lifelong journey. Don’t do it alone. Join a LifeGroup, because the journey is better together.