Speaker 1: The Bible says that to be a follower of Christ
Speaker 1: means to be a member of his family and a
Speaker 1: member of his body. Following Jesus is far more than
Speaker 1: just believing. It's not enough just to believe in Jesus.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, we're not just believers. We're belongers. We
Speaker 1: are to belong in the family of God, which is
Speaker 1: called the Church. And once we belong, then we become
Speaker 1: so we believe, then we belong, and then we become
Speaker 1: all that God wants for us to be in the
Speaker 1: first place. Now, the Bible says this, there on your outline, Romans,
Speaker 1: Chapter twelve, verse five. Let's read it aloud together. In Christ,
Speaker 1: we who are many, form one body, and each member
Speaker 1: belongs to all the others. Now circle the word belong.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that if you're a follower of Jesus,
Speaker 1: you don't just belong to God. You don't just belong
Speaker 1: to Jesus. You belong to me, and I belong to you,
Speaker 1: and we belong to each other, and you belong to
Speaker 1: every other believer. You're in the family. Now, You're in
Speaker 1: God's family. Now. It's interesting that in the Bible, two
Speaker 1: of the descriptions of the church are the church is
Speaker 1: a body and the church is a family. The church
Speaker 1: is the body of Christ, and the Church is the
Speaker 1: family of God. And in both of those cases, membership
Speaker 1: means something. In fact, the word English word member that
Speaker 1: we use for membership actually comes from the Bible, and
Speaker 1: the word membership has far more to do with life
Speaker 1: than simply like a you know, wear a hat or
Speaker 1: secret signal, or say the past word or handshake. Membership
Speaker 1: means far more than you just put your name on
Speaker 1: a role. It means you're vitally connected. The Bible says
Speaker 1: your hand is a member of your body. If it's disconnected,
Speaker 1: it shrivels and died. The Bible says your ears are
Speaker 1: members of your body. If you cut off your ears,
Speaker 1: they're worthless. They have no value at all if they're
Speaker 1: detached from the body. If you cut off your legs,
Speaker 1: your knees, your feet, they are members of your body.
Speaker 1: And if you cut it off, a disconnected foot is worthless.
Speaker 1: It has no value. It shrivels and die. You will
Speaker 1: shrivel and die spiritually if you're not connected to the
Speaker 1: body of Christ. And in the same way, you're a
Speaker 1: part of a family, and the Bible says that we
Speaker 1: have family responsibilities to each other. In fact, look at
Speaker 1: the next verse. They're on your outline. The Bible says
Speaker 1: in Galatians chapter six, let us do good to all people,
Speaker 1: especially those who belong in the family of believers. Now,
Speaker 1: notice it says we're to do good to everybody. You
Speaker 1: can't mistreat anybody, you can't hate anybody, you can't show
Speaker 1: disrespect for anybody. Not going to be a follower of Jesus.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, it's the follower of Jesus. I am
Speaker 1: commanded to love everyone, to respect everyone, and to be
Speaker 1: kind and loving to all people, regardless of who they are,
Speaker 1: what they believe, their lifestyle, what they do to me,
Speaker 1: I am to return love for them. So let us
Speaker 1: do good to all people. But he says, especially those
Speaker 1: who belong to the family a believer in us. Again
Speaker 1: circle the word belong. In both cases, you belong. You
Speaker 1: belong as a member of the body of Christ, and
Speaker 1: you belong as a member of the family of God. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a very different understanding of a church than
Speaker 1: most people have. If you ask most people what do
Speaker 1: you think of when you say church? They think of
Speaker 1: a building a building, or they think of it as
Speaker 1: an event, and church is something you see on a corner,
Speaker 1: or church is something you go to to attend. The
Speaker 1: Bible says that's not a church at all. Church is
Speaker 1: neither an event nor a building. Church is a relationship.
Speaker 1: It is a family. It is the family of God.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's going to outlast your physical family. In fact,
Speaker 1: it's going to outlast everything on earth. The Bible says
Speaker 1: God created the entire world because he wanted in the universe,
Speaker 1: because he wanted a family. You cannot be what God
Speaker 1: wants you to be. You cannot follow Jesus. You cannot
Speaker 1: follow Jesus without being connected to his family. And the
Speaker 1: Bible calls this membership being a member. In fact, if
Speaker 1: you say, well, I believe in Jesus, but I don't belong,
Speaker 1: then there's a word for you, your spiritual orphan. You
Speaker 1: don't have a family, you are a spiritual orphan. Now,
Speaker 1: our model for our small groups is are the small
Speaker 1: groups of the Book of Acts. Let me read this
Speaker 1: to you. In Acts, chapter two, it tells us the
Speaker 1: story of the first day of the Church and what
Speaker 1: happened afterwards. Verse forty one, it says, those who accepted
Speaker 1: Peter's message. This is on the day of Pentecost, accepted
Speaker 1: his message, were baptized, and about three thousand were added
Speaker 1: that day to the church. Imagine baptizing three thousand people
Speaker 1: in one day. That's pretty good. Then, it says, then
Speaker 1: they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching, and to the fellowship,
Speaker 1: and to the breaking of bread, and to prayer. And
Speaker 1: everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous
Speaker 1: signs were done by the apostles, and all the believers
Speaker 1: shared everything together and had everything in common. They'd even
Speaker 1: sell their possessions and good and give to anyone when
Speaker 1: they had a need. And every day they continued to
Speaker 1: meet together in the temple courts, and they also broke
Speaker 1: bread in their homes and ate together with glad and
Speaker 1: sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all
Speaker 1: the people. And as a result, it says, the Lord
Speaker 1: added to their number daily. The church grew every day
Speaker 1: the people who were being saved. Now, if you're not
Speaker 1: in a group right now, these seven things I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you just real quickly as we close, are
Speaker 1: what you're missing. If you're in a group, I want
Speaker 1: you to use these seven signs of a healthy group
Speaker 1: to evaluate your own group. Okay, here's what they did.
Speaker 1: Number one, they studied the Bible. That's the first sign
Speaker 1: of a healthy group. They studied the Bible together. In
Speaker 1: verse forty two, it says they devoted themselves to the
Speaker 1: apostles teaching. Now, what is the apostles teaching? It's this,
Speaker 1: It's the Bible. The New Testament was written by the apostles. Paul, John, Peter, Mark, James.
Speaker 1: These were apostles that wrote the New Testament. And obviously
Speaker 1: they didn't have the Bible at that time. It wasn't
Speaker 1: found into a book. But they were studying what we
Speaker 1: study today now. Evidently, what the apostles were teaching on
Speaker 1: the weekends at the temple courts, they were reviewing during
Speaker 1: the week in the house to house. Second thing they did.
Speaker 1: It says they fellowshiped and they ate together in their
Speaker 1: small groups in the house house. They fellowshiped and ate together.
Speaker 1: In verse forty two, it says they devoted themselves to
Speaker 1: the fellowship. Now, I've already talked about this why it's
Speaker 1: important for us to build relationships, but There's only one
Speaker 1: way you're going to build fellowship, and that is through frequency.
Speaker 1: If your group only meets every other week, if you
Speaker 1: miss it one time, it means you haven't seen him
Speaker 1: for a month. You can't have fellowship like that. You
Speaker 1: have to meet every week. If you only meet every
Speaker 1: other week, if you miss a week, that's a month
Speaker 1: you go without that small group fellowship. So we need
Speaker 1: to have frequency in our fellowship. And then notice it
Speaker 1: says in verse forty six, they ate together with glad,
Speaker 1: and sincere hearts, aren't you glad? That's a part of
Speaker 1: small groups, all right. Food is a tool of fellowship. Amen, Amen,
Speaker 1: How many of you have grown closer to other people
Speaker 1: through fellowship meals? Got to see your hands? All right?
Speaker 1: How many have grown fatter through fellowship meals? It's interesting
Speaker 1: if you study the ministry of Jesus, you'll find that
Speaker 1: almost every time Jesus taught, they were either walking or eating.
Speaker 1: Walking or eating. Why because when people are walking or
Speaker 1: when people are eating, they're relaxed, and that way communication
Speaker 1: can get through. Their barriers aren't up there, they're not defensive.
Speaker 1: In fact, a lot of Jesus' major teaching he taught
Speaker 1: while they were eating dinner. That's a good thing. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to give you a requirement from your pastor.
Speaker 1: You must eat at your small group. I know that'll
Speaker 1: really be hard for some of you. But it says
Speaker 1: they ate with glad and sincere hearts. Be happy when
Speaker 1: you eat, and you eat it sincerely, because that's what
Speaker 1: they did in the New Testament. And they fellowshiped around food.
Speaker 1: Number three, they shared communion. They shared communion together in
Speaker 1: their homes. They took the Lord's supper. It says they
Speaker 1: devoted themselves to the breaking of bread. That's talking about communion.
Speaker 1: It's talking about the Lord's Supper. In the New Testament,
Speaker 1: they took the Lord's supper in homes. They broke bread
Speaker 1: in the homes. Not a single time in the Bible
Speaker 1: did they have Mass in the morning at worship. Not once.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you noticed this, know this, but
Speaker 1: there were no church buildings for the first three hundred
Speaker 1: years of the church. For three hundred years there were
Speaker 1: no church buildings. They either used a synagogue if they
Speaker 1: were Jewish, or they met in homes or just out
Speaker 1: under a park. There were no church buildings. I've been
Speaker 1: in the oldest standing church build and still standing, which
Speaker 1: is in Syria. It's about three ten AD. That's one
Speaker 1: of the oldest examples of a church actually built. So
Speaker 1: the idea of having communion in the morning, by the way,
Speaker 1: it was called the Lord's supper, not the Lord's breakfast.
Speaker 1: Why because it was done in the evening. It wasn't
Speaker 1: done as a morning a mess. And if you go
Speaker 1: to First Corinthians eleven, and we try to do everything
Speaker 1: here by the Bible. In First Corinthians eleven, it tells
Speaker 1: us that one of the purposes of communion is to
Speaker 1: promote openness to God and openness to each other. That's
Speaker 1: why it's called communion, openness to God and openness to
Speaker 1: each other. You cannot be open to other people in
Speaker 1: a crowd of three thousand people. You just can't do
Speaker 1: it because you don't know them. You can't be open
Speaker 1: with people you don't know. That's why communion is best
Speaker 1: served in a small group fellowship where you know the
Speaker 1: people and you can share the struggles, the prayers, the needs,
Speaker 1: the hurts, the encouragements that we all need. In that
Speaker 1: sense of openness, they shared communion Number four. They prayed
Speaker 1: for each other in the small groups, it says they
Speaker 1: devoted themselves to prayer. Now, I don't have to tell
Speaker 1: you about the power of group prayer. I have heard
Speaker 1: story after story after story after story of small groups
Speaker 1: praying for people in crisis and seeing amazing things happen,
Speaker 1: in miracles and all kinds of things. But you know
Speaker 1: as well as I do, that when you're stressed out,
Speaker 1: it helps to have other people praying for you when
Speaker 1: you can't pray for yourself. Sometimes you go through a
Speaker 1: tough time you don't even know what to pray. God,
Speaker 1: I'm so stressed out, I'm so tired, I'm so broken,
Speaker 1: I'm so grieving. I can't even pray. That's when you
Speaker 1: need people to pray for you. You need people to
Speaker 1: believe God for you. You need people to have faith
Speaker 1: for you to pull you through that time. Because there
Speaker 1: are times in your life you're a blubbering mess and
Speaker 1: you don't even know what to pray. You're so depressed,
Speaker 1: you're so discouraged, you're so angry, you're so mad, you're
Speaker 1: so worried. You don't even know what to pray. And
Speaker 1: that's why we need each other to pray for each other.
Speaker 1: And when you're going through a tough time, you should
Speaker 1: never have to carry your major burdens by yourself. We
Speaker 1: were meant to help each other. The Bible says it's
Speaker 1: not good for men to be alone. God hates loneliness.
Speaker 1: Whether you ever get married or not. You need a
Speaker 1: spiritual family which provides the one another's the comfort and
Speaker 1: praying for each other. Number five. The fifth thing they
Speaker 1: did as a mark of a healthy small group is
Speaker 1: they helped each other in practical ways, and so we
Speaker 1: judge ourselves in this way. They helped each other in
Speaker 1: practical ways. It says they gave to anyone as he
Speaker 1: had a need, and that's what small groups are supposed
Speaker 1: to do. You need to borrow a lone lawnmower, here,
Speaker 1: borrow my lawnmower. You need a babysitter, Let me help
Speaker 1: babysit for you. You need a job reference, Let me
Speaker 1: write a recommendation for you. Whatever you need. You need
Speaker 1: help making it through a tough time. Let me bring
Speaker 1: some meals over while your wife is sick, or your
Speaker 1: husband is sick, or whatever. It's the body helping each other. Now,
Speaker 1: what I'm just telling you about friends is the exact
Speaker 1: opposite of the American way. The American way is to
Speaker 1: centralize care. The Christian way is to decentralize it and
Speaker 1: make it as personal and grassroots as possible. Whenever Americans
Speaker 1: have a crisis like in Haiti, our typical reaction is,
Speaker 1: let's organize it, and let's get a central control. And
Speaker 1: for instance, let's start a soup kitchen and wait for
Speaker 1: people to come and get the soup. And let's start
Speaker 1: a food pantry and wait for people to come and
Speaker 1: get the food. And let's start of this and for
Speaker 1: people to come and get it to the centralized fight. Now,
Speaker 1: that's better than nothing, but it's not the best way
Speaker 1: because a lot of people are too embarrassed to go
Speaker 1: to the central location. It's much better to have a
Speaker 1: small group take care of the people in that small group.
Speaker 1: You need a meal, will get your meal. You need help,
Speaker 1: will help you out. You need a ride to the airport,
Speaker 1: We'll get your ride to the airport. And it is
Speaker 1: decentralized and more personal through the small groups. That's why,
Speaker 1: because they are the natural organization of the body. Hi,
Speaker 1: this is Rick, and thanks for joining me today. You
Speaker 1: know this month on Daily Hope, we're offering to send
Speaker 1: you a special copy of my book called The Purpose
Speaker 1: of Christmas. I wrote this book to help you come
Speaker 1: to a deeper understanding of God's love for you by
Speaker 1: explaining the three purposes of Christmas that we're announced by
Speaker 1: the Angel at the birth of Jesus. The Angel announced
Speaker 1: the time of celebration. I bring you good news of
Speaker 1: great joy, salvation for unto you is born this day
Speaker 1: in the City of David, a savior who is Christ
Speaker 1: the Lord, and reconciliation, Peace on earth, goodwill toward men.
Speaker 1: Daily Hope is a one hundred percent listener supported ministry.
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Speaker 1: The American way is to centralize care. The Christian way
Speaker 1: is to decentralize it and make it as personal and
Speaker 1: grassroots as possible. Number six, The sixth thing that they
Speaker 1: did a small group is they worshiped together. They worshiped together.
Speaker 1: In fact, the Bible says that as they met in
Speaker 1: their house to house homes. It says they praised God
Speaker 1: and they enjoyed favor of all the people. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, I can't tell you the
Speaker 1: number of times the group I've been in right now,
Speaker 1: as I think I told you, I've been in at
Speaker 1: five or six years, this current small group. I can't
Speaker 1: tell you the number of times when at the end
Speaker 1: of the day I was so tired and so worn
Speaker 1: out from work and so tired of listening to people's
Speaker 1: problems and dealing with people in real need, that I
Speaker 1: just go. I don't have anything in me. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go to a small group. I was just
Speaker 1: too tired to go. But I go. You know, I've
Speaker 1: made a commitment and I'm going to go. And so
Speaker 1: I would make that commitment and I would show up,
Speaker 1: even no matter how tired I was. While we were
Speaker 1: at a small group, through the worship time, my heart
Speaker 1: was renewed, my emotions were restored, my tank was refilled,
Speaker 1: my love was reinvigorated. When I left, I was going. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm sure glad I went, because before I was a
Speaker 1: basket case. I've seen too many people I've dealt with
Speaker 1: too many problems I've got, I'm too tired, I got
Speaker 1: too many things on my agenda, got too much to
Speaker 1: do tomorrow, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But I
Speaker 1: go to a small group, and it is in worship
Speaker 1: we get emotionally recharged. And it is in fellowship we
Speaker 1: get spiritually strengthened. And it is in looking at the
Speaker 1: Word of God we get rejuvenated. And it is all
Speaker 1: the things that a small group's designed to do. It's
Speaker 1: for your benefit. It's for your benefit to keep you going.
Speaker 1: You got a fire going, You got a coal in
Speaker 1: that fire, it's all hot. You take the coal off
Speaker 1: set of by itself, it grows cold. And the only
Speaker 1: way that coal is going to get hot is get
Speaker 1: it back in the fire. And the fire is the
Speaker 1: small group, and that will keep you going. Number seven.
Speaker 1: The seventh thing they did in a small group is
Speaker 1: they invited others to church. They told people about Jesus,
Speaker 1: they brought people to Christ. They were an outreach group.
Speaker 1: Every one of the small groups in the New Testament
Speaker 1: time in the Church of Jerusalem, we're focused on outreach,
Speaker 1: on helping reach people who didn't know the Lord yet,
Speaker 1: and they helped each other bring people to Christ, and
Speaker 1: the Bible says this every day. The number in their
Speaker 1: group continued to grow as the Lord added those who
Speaker 1: were being saved. Now circle the word every day. Notice
Speaker 1: the church is growing, not just on weekends, it's growing
Speaker 1: every day. Why because the groups are meeting every day. Now,
Speaker 1: the proof of a healthy small group, how do you
Speaker 1: know when your small group is mature? You start having babies.
Speaker 1: The proof of physical maturity is the ability to reproduce.
Speaker 1: When you go through puberty and you can have a
Speaker 1: baby as a man or a woman, you're now mature.
Speaker 1: The proof of spiritual maturity in your small group is
Speaker 1: your small group is birth to other small groups, you
Speaker 1: have baby small groups. Now, there's a couple of ways
Speaker 1: you can do this. You can take your group that's
Speaker 1: been together a year or two year, maybe even longer,
Speaker 1: and you can divide it up and to two or
Speaker 1: three groups. Say we're going to start three new groups
Speaker 1: out of our small group. Why because people need the
Speaker 1: Lord and you can. You can divide it up that way,
Speaker 1: and you know if you're by the way, if your
Speaker 1: group has more than ten people, you're pregnant. Okay, you're pregnant.
Speaker 1: Why because you get more than about eight people in
Speaker 1: a small group, it's no longer a small group. Because
Speaker 1: more than eight people, studies have shown somebody stops talking
Speaker 1: and they become a little wallflower, and the larger group
Speaker 1: gets the more two or three people dominate the group.
Speaker 1: And that's not what we want. We want everybody participating
Speaker 1: in small groups. Small is better. Best sized group is
Speaker 1: maybe six people, maybe eight people. You don't really have
Speaker 1: to have a big group six or eight people. That way,
Speaker 1: I can't have relationships with forty two people, but I
Speaker 1: have them with six. I'm have them with four, I
Speaker 1: have them maybe with eight. But you know, if you've
Speaker 1: got more than that, you need to consider dividing your
Speaker 1: group and multiplying and having a baby. Or you can
Speaker 1: send out your best, just like the church at Antioch
Speaker 1: did where they took Paul and Barnabas said, you guys
Speaker 1: go out and start in new groups. You go out
Speaker 1: and start new churches, things like that. Let me close
Speaker 1: by praying for you, Would you bow your heads, Father,
Speaker 1: and I pray for my flock, and I pray it'll
Speaker 1: be an easier year for them, for those Lord who
Speaker 1: are trying to climb out of debt. May they find
Speaker 1: financial freedom this year. For those of them who are
Speaker 1: trying to make ends meet and they're struggling because they're
Speaker 1: out of work right now, Lord, would you provide a job.
Speaker 1: Would you open the doors that they could get full
Speaker 1: employment again quickly? Father? For those who are trying to
Speaker 1: climb out of a health crisis, those who are facing difficulty,
Speaker 1: May this year be a year of health for them.
Speaker 1: May they find new strength, new vigor. May they be
Speaker 1: stronger than any year in the past. Father. For those
Speaker 1: in our church family who are struggling with relational problems
Speaker 1: and been through conflict. There's some here who are separated
Speaker 1: from their husband or their wife, or there's some who
Speaker 1: are in the middle of a divorce, some who've lost
Speaker 1: a loved one, some who are having major crisis in
Speaker 1: their home. Would you bring peace in their heart and
Speaker 1: harmony in their relationships? Bless them with changes of heart
Speaker 1: and mind, that there would be reconciliation and love and
Speaker 1: new future and new hope. Lord. For those who've always
Speaker 1: had that dream, may this be the year that they
Speaker 1: scale everest. May this be the year that they reach
Speaker 1: their peak, that they go after the height. May this
Speaker 1: be the year that they take that chance and start
Speaker 1: the climb. But I pray in all of this that
Speaker 1: we won't do it alone, but that every person in
Speaker 1: our church family will be a part of a temple
Speaker 1: court and a house to house, be a part of
Speaker 1: large group worship and small group fellowship. And we pray
Speaker 1: this in Jesus' name. Amen. Friends, if you're having trouble
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