Why Life Groups?

Why Life Groups

Pastor Joey Bishop 

1. We have lost our sense of community.
2. Social Media – not real community.
   1. Touch = Health, Brain Development
      1. 8-10 healthy touches a day
   2. No more “front porches”.
   3. Life Groups facilitate community connection.
   4. Life Groups is a powerful way to pastor each other.
   5. Exodus 18:17-25 Moses sets up a system.
   6. Ephesian 4:11:16 Life Groups is a system of equipping the saints for ministry.
   7. I Corinthians 3:5-9 Do Your Part!

• 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 We have no excuses!

1. Ephesians 2:10 We were created for Good Works!

III. You Have Something to Give!

1. Matthew 25:14-30
2. Matthew 5:13-16 You are Salt and Light!
3. Hebrews 13:16
4. Leave a Legacy. (something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past.)
5. Being generational. Psalms 145:4
6. Always pass on what you have learned! By: Yoda
7. Step out in Faith, do something that’s beyond yourself!
8. Hebrews 11:6 It is IMPOSSIBLE to please God without Faith!
9. 2 Corinthians 5:7
10. Matthew 14:28

Takeaways:

1. We need face to face community and connection.
2. We have been equipped to meet each other’s needs.
3. We have no excuses!

• We all have something to give!

1. Pass on what you have learned.
2. Build community!

• Lead a Life Group, Join a Life Group!