Over the next couple of weeks I want to publish a series of entries outlining the overall vision for small groups High Point. Generally speaking though vision is supposed to answer three questions: What’s the problem? What’s the solution? Why us why now?
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Why I Believe Lloyd Biddle is the Right Choice (Plus Vision/Compass Video)
Searches are funny things. They are like jobs, or marriage, or where you’re planning to live, or anything else – picturing it is both clarifying and confusing. In all these things, picturing what will be motivates you toward your goal. However, the goal is never like the picture, and at some point you realize, the picture was always too general to be real. The picture never existed. There is only the real job, actual man or woman, physical location, and best candidate. They are never what you pictured because the thing you pictured never was. And this is why real decision about big things are never easy to make, and even harder to live out.
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What big church & small church can’t do: The call of medium-sized groups
There are two tasks that are absolutely integral to building strong Christian movements, believing individuals and solid families:
- Helping people move from a very large group comfortably into small groups in a way that seems relationally natural.
- Delivering important educational content necessary for full Christian transformation.
Small group communities and large group worship services have a hard time addressing these tasks. On one level I really wish that large group worship services and small groups were sufficient to meet the ministry needs of families and individuals. It would be so much simpler from an organizational and leadership perspective to have ministries to adults, youth and children based on these two types of environments. But there are a couple of problems.
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Where We’re Going and Where We’ve Been
Engage & Equip 