One of life's most intimidating things is starting something new. At first, the excitement of beginning a new project really gets your momentum in full swing. Then comes the part where we begin to dream. Once that is past then you have to start. The question is where? That for me is where the intimidation begins.
I write these words as a group of Christ followers begin development of a small groups ministry at our church. We have attempted small groups in the past, however, with little or no success. Currently, we have two small groups who have been meeting once a month for the past two years. We have one small group that just disbanded which lasted three years. As of writing this, we have been blessed with the beginning of two new small groups. We are fervently praying that the two new groups will be a catalyst for more growth this fall. Currently, we are working on implementing a church-wide Bible study/small group study with Zondervan's Story curriculum. You can learn more about this at www.zondervan.com.
So, for us, prayer is where are going to begin. As we pray, we will be listening for the voice of the Holy Spirit to guide our ministry team in the direction he would have us to go. After that we will begin to chronicle what the Holy Spirit is doing and where he his leading us in this blog.
Like I said, we have to start somewhere.
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