COMMUNITY GROUPS

“Yep, just like it sounds. Community groups meet in the community for the purpose of building community among each other.”

If you study the early church, it is very clear that Christianity was never intended to be a "Sunday-only" ritual that we "practice" for an hour a week as we pop in and out of a nearby service or mass. Rather, what we see in the Bible is that the Gospel not only changes our relationship with God, but it also changes our relationships with one another. So much in fact, that those who became Christ-followers began to follow Christ together as a family. In this same understanding of the Bible as the early church, during the week we gather together in smaller groups throughout the city in one another's homes for the purpose of building real relationships, and holding one another accountable in love as we seek to follow Christ together. Typically we will eat dinner together, sing a few songs, study a passage of scripture, and pray for one another.

Because God has loved us through the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ, we love one another. God has made for himself a new family that we are part of. As a good father, he has adopted us, and united us together not by biological blood, but by the blood of Jesus. Many of us come from broken families, or have even been abandoned altogether. Some of us have families that are still intact, but we are the only Christian in our family. As a church in deep relationship with one another, we are committed to helping one another follow all that God has revealed to us in his word. Together we are learning to be better husbands and wives, dads and moms, friends & neighbors.... all informed by the Gospel, as the people of God.