Small groups provide the optimal environment for life change. Small groups practice and live out spiritual and biblical truth and grace with an allowance of time.
Small groups leaders display leadership potential and have received confirmation of the elders of the church.
Small groups should be open to expanding and multiplying so that every person can be connected into community. Small groups are an effective tool for evangelizing. People tend to be searching for a sense of belonging before they seek a sense of belief.
Small groups provide the primary environment for mutual care and mutual ministry. Small groups focus on learning and application rather than study.
Authentic community through small groups should be modeled and practiced by leadership at every level.
Small groups are not a meeting or an event. They are a community/family...a lifestyle.
People connect into small groups that produce spiritual transformation, authentic community and loving service to one another...fellow believers, seekers, and strays. No perfect people allowed.
Small groups need not be viewed as "just one more thing" to add to an overactive schedule but rather they should be a relief to the fragmentation.
Small groups are not a separate ministry of the church, but are the Church.
Neighborhood focused small group communities are effective and consolidate people, play, spiritual purpose and availability.
