Nurturing Societies

We often speak of small groups as a late 20th century invention or programmatic method to get people "plugged in". Nothing could be further from the truth. Small Groups as they exist today should meet in the same vein as Christ did with his disciples. To corporately invest in the life of the Master and be sent out to do the Master's business together.

In the mid-1700's John Wesley influenced thousands of people into Christian discipleship through small societies we might refer to as small groups. Wesley was noted for saying, "Preaching like an apostle, without joining together those that are awakened and training them in the way of God, is only begetting children for the murderer."