There Must Be More
I’ve been talking with my roommate the past couple of days about small group. There have been things on our hearts that we’d like to see in our small groups and in our church, such as some sort of social / community outreach. Even when thinking of what to do for sharing small group, we’re bouncing ideas off each other. The problem I have is that it all seems so old. Been there, done that. I’m leading my 5th small group – are they all going to follow the same pattern? Out of 19 years of CFC, is this really the best way to do things or do we just keep doing the same things because it works?
I’m not talking about changing things for pure sake of change. Are there not more ways we can challenge our small group and help them to get spiritually deeper? I’m incredibly thankful that there has been thought on the YA side of things: Career Coffeehouse and Mission trips. The engineering coffee house keeps getting better every two years. The Tech Team trip was awesome. We also had a Teachers trip to Kenya, and a Business trip so China. Why can’t we have more? Pioneers does so much, can’t we partner with them and do more? I know there are passionate people thinking and planning ways to do more.
What about the home front? In our community? Or even in our own church? Do we still consider the “pinnacle” of “spiritual maturity” to be leading a small group? Is someone a “spiritual failure” if they choose something else over that opportunity to serve? What about the people unable to make the time commitments? Are there more ways that we can train people? Are there different areas that they can be better trained in, like in loving the poor, broken, and downtrodden? Where are the visionaries? The people who dream big? Have we grown so big and gotten “drunk” on our “success” that we sit around on our laurels?
Maybe I’m just a malcontent jaded by my years here and bored of the status quo wanting something new. Or maybe I think CFC could be so much more than what we currently are, that there are a wealth of untapped opportunities and new places God wants to take our church.