Category: Small Groups

• Messy Christian Communities

  As our church makes the slow but intentional shift toward Missional Communities, I found this illustration to be a good picture of the contrast between common perception and ideal reality of what such communities, or small groups, and even church is like. On the left side, “What People Think It Looks Like“, we see the…

  Dennis Griffith

  January 7, 2015

  Church, Church Health, Ministry, Missional Communities, Small Groups

  Christian Community, Church, Community, Fellowship, Missional Communities, Neil Cole, sanctification, Small Groups, spiritual growth

• Getting Through Challenges to Missional Community

  As we have been encouraging the small groups in our church to add a more intentional outward face, I thought I would post this piece by Jonathan Dodson that provides a solid three-legged-base counsel concerning missional communities – which is what small groups embracing an outward face are in transition toward becomming. *** The popularity of missional community is…

  Dennis Griffith

  August 27, 2013

  Church, Missional Communities, Small Groups

  Gospel-Driven, Jonathan Dodson, Missional Church, Missional Communities, Small Group Ministry, Small Groups