Community Groups

What are Community Groups?

Community Groups are the primary place for pastoral care at Redeemer. They are also the chief means by which the following are accomplished:

1. assimilation of new members
2. accountability and discipleship
3. leadership development
4. gift identification
5. evangelism and outreach
6. service and ministry to felt needs
7. communication

Therefore, we hope that a great majority of Redeemer's members and attenders will be involved in a Community Group.

The church is about relationships - with God and with one another. It is our great privilege and our great responsibility to engage in such relationships with zest and delight. At Redeemer, the chief opportunity to cultivate and develop such relationships is in our Community Groups.

What do they look like?

Community Groups are gatherings of 6 to 12 people meeting in individual apartments and homes throughout the city during the week. In Community Groups, a primary Christian community is developed and fostered. People are nurtured, equipped and released for God's work in the world. They also provide an opportunity for intimacy, mutual support, practical love and service, learning about the Christian faith, prayer, and sharing of what God is doing in our midst. All groups are led by trained lay-leaders from the congregation who are given continued oversight and support.

Redeemer's Community Groups provide systematic pastoral care for the entire congregation, to enable personal and corporate spiritual growth.

Individual groups develop a primary Christian community where Jesus Christ is experienced in his presence and power. They are communities where His Spirit ministers to one another so that each person is cared for and encouraged to lead a God-pleasing life. A community where Christ transforms lives as individuals, as small communities, and the larger communities of which the group is a part.

Christian Fellowship can be defined as seeking to share with others what God has made known to you, while letting them share what they know of him. This becomes a means of finding strength, refreshment and instruction for one's own soul. The Scriptures give us numerous commands concerning how we should interact in fellowship with one another. We are told to encourage one another, serve one another, rejoice and weep with one another, correct, instruct, sing to, build up, accept and love one another. There is no better way to put yourself in a position to fulfill these commands than by becoming part of a Community Group. Join one today!

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