Are Home Groups for me? (you)

Great question eh? I’ll bet you have probably asked yourself that in the last few years. Or as a couple… “Are Home Groups for us? Am I right? I know I am. That’s why there have been sooooo many books written in the last 10 years about it.

Does even the notion of being in a Home Group stir up a feeling of some sort down inside you?

Look at this…

Here’s the church

Here’s the steeple

Open it up and look at all the people.

Here in lies the problem. Tooooo many people. I don’t care if there are 50 people inside or 5000. It’s toooo many people for YOU to connect to and have a caring relationship with. In Andy Stnley and Bill Willit’s book, “Creating Community” they mention that we were created to be relational beings with varying relationship needs based on our wiring and temperaments; but the truth is none of us was meant to live ALONE.

Go ahead and pull out your Rolodex, your Palm, your Crackberry, your Q, your Outlook contact list, and while your at it get out your Christmas card list, birthday card list and your neighborhood directory, Girl Scout leader list, soccer organization list, church directory, and finally your list of all your lists. Go ahead……….. Ok, now go thru and count the 100’s and 1000’s of people you live life around and I’d gather to say you live life deeply with very few of them. Bill Willits says “It’s no wonder so many of us feel alone and isolated, experiencing what an observer has called “crowded loneliness.”

That is not what God originally intended for us. Genesis 2:18 God says “It’s not good for man to live alone.” I believe that’s on the outside and the inside.

Look back up ↑ at the 3^rd picture of all the people standing, by themselves IN the church.

Now take a look at this next picture.

See the difference? They are connected!

Caring for each other. Jesus talked about sheep a lot. They were the best example 2000 years ago of “Living Life Together.” Think about this,.. Sheep are never attacked in herds – they are attacked when isolated from the flock.

We’ll take a look at what Jesus says about God’s plan for us while we are on this ball of mud... next... when we return.

On a quick note…. Southbrook’s Connecting classes are Sunday January 20^th. 3-8pm. 101, 201, 301, 401. Please come and attend your next class. Learn, grow, become. “Love your God with all your mind.” So that your heart will be steady when challenged.