Small and Medium Groups Are Both Huge! (where “one another’s) happen in a church

ABFs and Home ABFs

Bible study¹ in “community”²
with care³ and ministry⁴

 

1. Good teacher, true Bible exposition, clear application

2. Friendships, grace mood, time — 8 to 90

3. Special needs, illness, assigned responsibility — up to 4 or 5 families per person to care for

4. In church (take a kids’ class), city, world (missionary support)

 

Discipleship Groups

Bible application^A  in confidence^B
with accountability^C and ministry^D 

• Candor and care and obedience goals — best when all men or all women
• Bible-based questions about life
• Calls for long time together, small size — up to 7
• To each other and with each other

 

 

Reality Check

1. The purpose of a worship service is _worship_.

2. Worship services that try to do true “community” will stay _small_.

3. Some people prefer their community group to meet on _Sunday or weekdays__.

4. Absolutely no reason to have electives. (True or   False)

5. If men and women are both in a group, it is going to slide toward a
   community-fellowship group rather than discipleship-accountability.  (True or False)

6. Same thing if a group is bigger than seven. (True or False)

7. People probably should not try to be in two community-fellowship groups.                (True or False)   Why or why not? _______________

8. Men will join a community-fellowship group easier than they will join _a small discipleship group  .

9. A midsize or small group should meet at least    twice_ a month.

10. If these strategies for midsize and small groups are accepted, “Men’s                Fraternity”-type groups should be __evangelistic_.

11. If a family or person is too involved in groups at church and their evangelism and closeness suffer, whose fault is it?
    ____ God  ____ Theirs  ____ Pastor’s  ____ Wife’s – – (for discussion)

12. If a pastor does not lead a discipleship group, this will happen:
    _Other staff will not______

13. A group with 10 might as well have __15 or 20_.

14. “Community” and discipleship are both:

____ Possible ____ Difficult ____ Good ____ Needed
( all of the above)

15. A discipleship group needs to have a leader. True or False  (True)

16. The best place to find new leaders in a church is in discipleship groups. True or False (True)

17. The main ingredients of a discipleship group:
    T_ime       L_ove__    C__ontent of Scripture that hits the heart  .

18. Churches who love “to meet as one group” (community) will probably stay ___the same size____.

19. __Jesus Christ__ should be at the center of all our church groups and gatherings.