I hope you are having a great time and are tuned into what God is trying to do in and through you in this season.
I wanted to give you a heads up about where we're headed in the weeks to come.
Prayer.
You know, that area of your spiritual development that you're 100% satisfied with and totally understand...we're going to spend 5 weeks on that. (Heavy sarcasm alert...)
We are excited about the direction(s) we'll be taking on Sunday mornings, but all of us know that whatever is said and experienced on Sunday morning can only have value if it's taken further the rest of the week. Obviously, groups help with that critical element. You may need to consider whether this is a topic for your group to follow.
For the next 5 weeks, we will provide prayer guides, small devotion-like booklets, for everyone who wants them at Crosspointe. Each day the guide is set up to help take people into a little deeper water, serving as a tool for patterning our thoughts around conversing and living in the presence of God through prayer and reflection. As leaders, we need to evaluate whether our people who are in LifeGroups would additionally benefit from centering our group discussion around prayer, as well.
Topically, we will cover the "why?" this Sunday, "what difference does prayer actually make to a God that is going to do what He wants anyway...?". Then we'll get into the discipline of prayer, then seasons of silence and disappointment, how we're shaped in the process and how we play a roll in being part of the answer to our own requests. It should prove awesome what God will do in our community as we corporately, and of course then individually, take prayer more seriously.
Grab a guide this Sunday, and until then, be prayerful about this season of prayer and what God might want to do in the group you lead.
Steve
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