Reflections on My First Summer Life Group

Tonight, I gathered around a room with some pretty decent people for the first week of our summer life group semester as we began reading “Vintage Church” by Mark Driscoll.  The first chapter was dripping with theological short-hand.  The book will be challenging.  But, it begins to lighten up next week as we get beyond the first chapter.  It’s a good read, challenging, and will lead to good conversations with some good people I’m getting to know better.

Why is life group so good?

• new relationships develop.
• we pray with one another.
• Biblical conversations.
• we distribute leadership.

After the first week, I won’t lead it again.  I’ll just attend and participate with the group as leadership is shared and people step into their roles of leadership.

It’s inevitible that over the course of the next several weeks, strong leadership will begin to be expressed by people in the group…helping me to indentify future leaders in our church or groups.  What we study is important.  But, what emerges out of this group in the lives of the participants is as important.  That’s exciting.

If you haven’t registered for a group yet, it isn’t too late.  You can do it online here.