Community Groups
Harvest Community Groups are designed to create a space for four essential areas: Connecting – spending time with people, Communion meals – breaking bread together around a table, Celebrating – Participating together in fun activities; to laugh and build memories, and Conversation – to listen, learn and give input.
Acts 2:42-47 paints a beautiful picture of the early church. In it, we see that they are diligently seeking spiritual formation and caring about one another. They are regularly in each other’s homes, sharing meals, praying, and meeting each other’s needs. They are not only witnesses to each other’s stories but sharers in them, and it speaks to the glory of God and how we bear His image by truly loving one another.
Acts 2:42-47 paints a beautiful picture of the early church. In it, we see that they are diligently seeking spiritual formation and caring about one another. They are regularly in each other’s homes, sharing meals, praying, and meeting each other’s needs. They are not only witnesses to each other’s stories but sharers in them, and it speaks to the glory of God and how we bear His image by truly loving one another.
Why Community Groups?
Community Groups are one of the ways that we can enjoy the proximity of being in each other’s lives—not just passing each other on Sundays. As believers, we serve a triune God who lives in community as Father, Son, and Spirit and we are called to display Him to one another by living in community together. In the Scriptures, the language used to described this reality is “family” – brothers & sisters, mothers and fathers, grandparents and children – all functioning in a way that displays the beauty of the gospel. Each member of this multigenerational spiritual family adds value to the whole. Our desire is that every group has people from different decades and season of life who are living out our positional reality as family members.
While no community of people—big or small—is perfect, it’s in the context of biblical community that we can experience in part; the grace, understanding, unity, joy, and life that will be fully present in God’s Kingdom. Here we can catch a glimpse of God’s intention for us from the beginning and what He’s at work to redeem.
While no community of people—big or small—is perfect, it’s in the context of biblical community that we can experience in part; the grace, understanding, unity, joy, and life that will be fully present in God’s Kingdom. Here we can catch a glimpse of God’s intention for us from the beginning and what He’s at work to redeem.
What do Small Groups look like?
Fellowship
Accountability
Bible
2-Hours
Prayer
Multi-Generational
