Home Groups

Starting or attending a home group through your church is a wonderful thing to do.  It helps build relationships within the church, makes you feel more a part of something, and provides a good environment for believers to come together and really do some great things for Christ.  We started a home group a few months ago and it's a very nerve racking experience at first.  I am not saying that to discourage anybody, because that part doesn't really last that long and it really depends on the kind of person you are.  My wife and I are admittedly introverts, but we really felt this was something God was putting on our hearts to do.  Our group started out fairly small, we had two couples to start with, went up to three and then down to one. Now it's been a little over half a year and we have nine members total.  So basically we just kicked off our second home group this week.  The first meeting has always been about everybody getting a chance to get to know everyone else so we had a dinner get together with some question and answer time.  This is really hard for an introvert to do because everything in me wants to just be one of the people answering questions, not the person asking and trying to start conversations.  I really think that it's going to get easier as time goes on and we become more comfortable with everyone, after all the one couple that stayed through the entire time last home group we have really started to form a connection with.  That's actually too clinical a term, let's change that to friendship, yeah that's better.  And that's really a big part of what it's all about right?  I know we are supposed to go out and make the world into believers, but I know that's going to be a lot easier when we have fellow believers that we know and trust at our side encouraging us and standing beside us as we work together on the Great Commission.  I think that even Paul couldn't have done all he did without his friends.