What is church all about? Can you be a Christian and not go to church?
With the cold weather now, you may find yourself looking at an open fire. Someone once said to me 'Take a burning coal out of the fire, how long will it continue to burn?'
Just as a coal soon stops burning when it is away from the other burning coals, so Christians lose their spiritual fire when we are not regularly with other Christians.
This was key to the exciting life that the first Christians shared with each other:
"They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer." (Acts 2:44)
The main way that this shared life happens in most churches today is in small groups, and it is wonderful to hear about groups welcoming people in and sharing life together – learning from the Bible and living it out.
So What?
If you are in a small group, pray for the people in your group.
If you are not in a small group, why not pray about joining one and ask to join one.
Pray for our small groups to be all they should be – places where people share life together as God intends. Pray for the members, leaders, apprentices and for the small pastors who oversee the groups and who support and care for the small group leaders and apprentices.
Tim Norman
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