Small Groups
Connect with others on a real level
In our present culture people are searching for significance. They search for it in relationships. It is easy to get lost in the setting of a growing church unless you are involved in a smaller body within that community. At Calvary that smaller body is a small group. Although they come in many shapes and sizes, from a casual weekly cup of coffee, to monthly meetings in homes, to accountability groups, interest groups or mentoring sessions where innermost personal issues are shared, Small Groups have a common purpose. They are the glue that holds the larger community together.
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More About Small Groups
The mission of small groups at Calvary Temple
- "To connect people relationally in groups for the purpose of growing in Christ-likeness, loving one another, and contributing to the work of the church, in order to glorify God and make disciples of all nations."
- The most strategic person in the life-change process of the church is the small group leader. The ultimate goal of a leader is life change.
- Spiritual formation: To help group members grow in Christ-like character through learning, loving one another, and contributing of themselves and their resources.
- “A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.” Ecclesiastes 4:12 NLT
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Groups must expand and multiply so that eventually every believer can be connected to others. A small group does not ultimately exist for itself. Christ-like people resist the urge to be selfish - they desire to include other unconnected people in such a way that they too may experience group life. Small groups therefore must have a viable strategy for growth and reproduction so that someday everyone who gathers as a part of the local church is included in some kind of identifiable relational connection.