Why should I Join a LifeGroup?

We all need encouragement from others to make it in daily life. We believe that God designed us that way.

You can’t fulfill any of God’s purposes for your life on our own. Being Christ-like without developing relationships within the church is like fighting an impossible battle.

Unfortunately, our culture’s idolatry of individualism has influenced the way we think about spiritual growth. So much of today's teaching on spiritualality is self-centered and self-focused, without any reference to our relationship to others. This is completely unbiblical.

People need relationships . We don’t grow in isolation from others. We develop in the context of fellowship. Over and over again in both biblical and secular training we find this basic truth: People need relationships with each other to grow! The bible says, “Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another ...” (Hebrews 10:24-25) God intends for us to grow up in a family.

I’ve long believed that relationships are the “glue” that keep people connected to our churches. But relationships play an even more important role in moving people to maturity. They are absolutely essential for spiritual growth.

According to the New Testament, fellowship is not optional for a Christian. It is mandatory! Christians that are not connected in loving relationships with other believers are disobeying all the “one another” commands given in God’s Word.

John tells us that the proof that we are walking in the light is that we have fellowship with each other (1 John 1:7). If you’re not having regular fellowship with other believers, you should seriously question whether or not you are really walking in the light. Trying to walk in the light without fellowship with other believers is a futile activity.

John goes even further to suggest that we ought to question whether we really are saved if we don’t love other believers. "We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death."  (1 John 3:14)

The quality of your relationship to Jesus can be seen in the quality of your relationship to other believers. “For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.” (1 John 4:20) Notice that John says, “cannot.” It is impossible to love God if you don’t love his children.

Jesus taught that if you are out of fellowship with a brother, your worship is worthless (Matt. 5:23-24). A Christian cannot be in fellowship with God and out of fellowship with believers at the same time.

This is why meeting in the small group setting is so critical to the life of our church. We want to help our members develop relationships with one another, so they can grow. Our LifeGroups help members grow in all of God’s purposes – worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry, and evangelism.

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