REVEAL : A Growing Experience
Posted by herschelthompson on October 23, 2008
Journey Groups exist to lead people, through relational connections in groups, to become fully devoted followers of Christ. That being said, what the heck is a ‘fully devoted follower of Christ” anyway?
The REVEAL 2008 conference, hosted by Willow Creek Church in Chicago hosted a terrific lecture-style overview of their ongoing work with a study of spiritual formation among churches across the country of all shapes & sizes. What they discovered can be read in a few short books at www.revealnow.com .
For this blog though, the real application for Journey Groups was an intense awareness of how most churches (us too) have approached group ministry in a one-size-fits all group model. Reveal validated our purposes around Connect, Grow, & Serve but opened the door for discussion on how those purposes work themselves out over the life of a person’s spiritual journey from exploring christianity to live a Christ-centered life and multiple steps in between.
Is your group ‘plan’ taking into account the unique spiritual needs of your members? If anyone is using a ’spiritual assessment tool’ I’d be interested in hearing how that is going for you…
