What are some specifics of the vision for small groups?
• We are a church OF missional communities.Alongside our Sunday worship, small groups (missional communities) are a primary vehicle for being the church and living missionally in our city. • Our groups will place a large emphasis on building a movement of the gospel. Many of our existing groups have been primarily formed and grown from church-wide announcements and events. This will remain a priority but the focus and efforts for the growth of your group will shift to include non-believers who are not part of a church. Prayer, evangelism, simple training and obedience to the Bible will remain essential values for each group. • Each group will live out all 4 elements of a missional church – Worship Christ, Live in Community, Get Trained, and Make Disciples. In the past, groups would often only focus on 1 or 2 of these elements. We want to encourage the practice and emphasis of all four elements among our groups. In this way, small groups will more fully become the “house to house” expre
