Small Groups
We believe in a rhythm to church life. The rhythm, simply put, is: out onto the frontline, withdraw behind the frontline.
The frontline is the place where we share the gospel and seek to be a blessing to people as Christ's ambassadors. For some people the frontline is their place of work, for others its their family, for still others its school or uni, or community groups. The frontline is where we are most of the time. We spend hours and hours and hours on our frontline.
The frontline is a place where people get wounded. It's also a place of advance. There are both hurts and joys on the frontline. We need to share the joys and be healed from our hurts. This is why we withdraw behind the frontline into our small groups. In our small groups we share with one another about our time on the frontline; we pray for each other; we build each other up through Bible Study; we refresh each other so as to go back to the frontline once again.
SMALL GROUPS FOR 3rd MARCH
1. What do you think of when you think of a “disciple”?
2. Mark 1v14-20
a. How do you picture these three scenes? What is the atmosphere? What are the emotions? What actually happened here? Someone be a radio journalist and report an account of this story as you see it.
b. Who are the key people here and what do you know about them?
c. What different things are these people doing?
3. Jesus is beginning to gather his disciples around him.
a. How did Jesus increase the number of his disciples?
b. When we plan our “evangelism” or “adding to the church” today, what do we usually plan? How does this compare with what Jesus did?
4. The characteristics of a Disciple
a. Someone who has entered the Kingdom of God (v14,15). What does this mean, and how does it happen?
b. A follower of Jesus (v16-20). What does this mean, and what is (a) so challenging about it, and (b) so encouraging about it?
c. Someone with a new mission in life (v17). What does this mean and how does it give meaning and purpose to our lives?
5. Has tonight’s study changed your thinking in any way about (a) Jesus, (b) discipleship?
