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2.
What
is the difference between a basketball committee and a basketball team?
3. How does the size
of a church affect how people connect within it?
4.
Why
is it important to join a Focus Group? for you? for your family? for
CBC?
5.
What are the
responsibilities of those who attend a Focus Group?
6.
Why is it important
to join a Ministry Team? for you? for your family? for CBC?
7.
What
are the responsibilities of those who involved in a Ministry Team?
8.
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Quote Note on Relational Unity
Romans
12:4-5, Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these
members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we who
are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
1
Corinthians 12:12, The body is a unit, though it is made up of many
parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So
it is with Christ.
Ephesians 4:11-12, It was he who gave some
to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and
some to be pastors and teachers, 12 to prepare God's people for
works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.
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At CBC we emphasis team spirit and team play. Imagine
a basketball committee. What do you see overweigh, aging, managers
who make policies and tell other how o play the game. On the other
hand if you imagine a successful basketball team what to you see
...each team member doing their most on and off the court to accomplish
a shared goal.
In a “family”
size church of under 100, the pastor can attend to most everyone’s
special events and meet their individualized
needs. In a “Small” size
church (100-200) the pastor is limited to how often he can make
such traditional pastoral calls.
CBC is a medium size church 200-400. At CBC normal shepherding and
connecting is done mainly through our Focus Groups.
Exodus 18:17-18, Moses' father-in-law replied, "What
you are doing is not good. 18 You and these people who come
to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for
you; you cannot handle it alone.
Acts 6:2, So the Twelve gathered all the disciples
together and said, "It would not be right for us to neglect the
ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables.
1 Peter 4:9-10,
Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each one
should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully
administering God's grace in its various forms.
In our Focus Groups
with small group dynamics you can experience the "wells of
salvation"...worshiping, evangelizing, loving, learning and
serving. Though each Focus Group by its study or purpose will
lean more towards one or two of these; it is our desire that in
some way all will become a part of the DNA of the group. We
believe that Focus Group participation is significant
and important to the health of the individual, the group and the
congregation.
Isaiah 12:3,
With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation
Romans 15:7, Accept one another, then, just as Christ
accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
Romans 15:14,
I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full
of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one
another.
To get the most out of a Focus Group
you need to be
regular and participate; share prayer requests and special needs;
come to share a blessing as well as to receive a blessing; help
others in the group through troubled times; be creative and supportive
of how the group ministers to each other.
John 13:34, "A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Romans 12:10, Be devoted to one another in brotherly
love. Honor one another above yourselves.
Romans 12:16, Live in harmony with one another. Do
not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.
Do not be conceited.
Galatians 5:13,
You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom
to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.
At CBC we not only have Focus Groups
by Ministry Teams. Both have the same elements however a Ministry
Team for example the Worship Team will have a very specific ministry
responsibility associated with it. Some ministry teams are
weekly, some monthly, and others are for a single time and place.
We encourage those who attend CBC to be in both a Focus Group and
a Ministry Team.
Joshua 24:15, But if serving the LORD seems
undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you
will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the
River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living.
But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."
Romans 12:6-8,
We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's
gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith.
7 If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach;
8 if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing
to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership,
let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it
cheerfully.
Besides the what
has been said about Focus Groups we can add... be regular and punctual...
call when not able to show... pray for the team leaders ... be
loyal
to the team and church ministry objectives ... practice mutual
submission to other ministries within the church ... and be sensitive
to what other ministry teams are doing.
1 Corinthians16:16, to submit to such as these and
to everyone who joins in the work, and labors at it.
Ephesians 6:7,
Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men
Relational Unity in Romans and 1
Corinthians. Romans (12:4-5) and 1 Corinthians (10:17;
11:29;
12:12-27) reflect an earlier stage of usage. Paul's fullest
treatment of the theme (1 Corinthians
12:12-27) consists of an extended
comparison between the human body (sooma) and the church in order
to emphasize horizontal union among the members of Christ's body
and to demonstrate dramatically both diversity within unity (12:12
a,
14-19) and unity out of diversity (12:12 b, 20-27). A church
that was well known both for the giftedness of its members (1 Corinthians
1:7) and its toleration of divisions (1 Corinthians
1:10-13;
3:3;
4:6; 6:6;
11:17-22;
12:25) needed to heed warnings against both groundless
inferiority (12:14-19) and disdainful superiority (12:21-25). Each
member of the body has an important (vv.
17,
22), although not always
glamorous (vv.
23-24), contribution to make, and no member experiences
humiliation or honor without somehow affecting the rest (v.
26;
cf. 2 Corinthians
11:28-29). (Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology)
Romans 12:4-5, Just as each of us has one body with
many members, and these members do not all have the same function,
5 so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs
to all the others.
1 Corinthians 12:21-25, The eye cannot say to the
hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I
don't need you!" 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that
seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think
are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that
are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our
presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined
the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts
that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body,
but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
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