Genuine community is essential in the life of the church. While we certainly can connect with one another in large public settings like a Sunday morning worship gathering, something unique and essential happens when we connect in smaller groups. When such groups are centered around and rooted in Christ, they become places for us to develop mutual trust and friendship which is a great encouragement to our shared faith.

We cannot be well-known to hundreds of other people. In small groups we can begin to truly know and truly be known. In such communities we can urge one another on in our pursuit of Christ. When we engage with God’s Word in these small groups we gain from collective insight and wisdom, seeing things in scripture that on our own we might not notice. These are places where we can bear one another’s burdens and celebrate one another’s joys. When we serve together in these small groups, we see ourselves united to one another and to Christ at an even deeper level.

The Bible exemplifies the practice of small groups and exhorts us to use these communities as places grow in the knowledge of God, encourage one another and build each other up, rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn, and carry one another’s burdens (Col 1:9:12; 1 Thess. 5:11; Rom. 12:15; Gal. 6:2). Our hope would be that everybody who is a part of FPC will find a way into such a group.

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