Year: 2019

Dear Small Group Leaders,

    This week our stewardship series Mastering Money: Making Your Finances Serve Your Faith continued with the message Some Biblical Advice For The Broke.

    As usual, please send out a friendly meeting reminder to your group members with the attached discussion guide and the link to the Sunday sermon – https://www.christchurchsl.org/sermons/.

Leader Tips:

#1.  Let me offer you a word of guidance in the discussions this week as stewardship and giving can be a touchy and sensitive topic to some.  Right at the beginning of the discussion, offering a verbalized disclaimer about sharing might set some minds at ease. You may wish to say something like…

   “While the church is talking about stewardship right now, I know some people are very private about how or what they choose to give.  Certainly no one here tonight is being asked to share any specific amounts or percentages about what they give.  We are simply going to talk about finances and stewardship in general and what the Bible has to say about it, and leave the personal particulars between you and the Lord.”

#2. At the end of the meeting, you may wish to announce that next Sunday in all of the worship services, people are encouraged to bring their estimate of giving cards with them.  They will have the opportunity, as an act of worship, to offer them in faith by dropping them into an enclosed box (such that their information can remain private).

#3. Also FYI-

• Tuesdays at the Well, 7-8 pm, this week Pastor Temple is teaching on “Dealing With Doubts” at the church coffee bar
• Church devotional books for January & February- The Domino Effect, a study on Colossians, are still on sale at the coffee bar
• Discipleship Leader’s Breakfast- any leaders of discipleship groups at Christ Church are welcome to join me in Jacob’s Well, 8-9am, for an ongoing time of teaching, discussion and prayer about growth in discipleship.
• In case you missed the news, Pastor Andrew is being appointed to serve as the Senior Pastor of Magnolia United Methodist Church and starts March 1.
• There will be a church council meeting after church on February 3^rd(around 12:20pm in the Family Life Center).  All are welcome to attend and chili and soup are on the menu!

I pray you all have great meetings this week!  Thanks for serving in the discipleship ministries of Christ Church!

Your Co-Laborer In Christ,

Dan Conway

Pastor of Discipleship & Outreach

Christ Church

Dear Small Group Leaders,

   Attached is the discussion guide for this week’s message on the new sermon series “Mastering Money.”  The sermon videos can be viewed at www.christchurchsl.org/sermons, in case people missed them Sunday.  

   The only announcements I would remind you of as leaders in the teaching ministries of the church are:

1. You can join me and other teachers on Tuesday mornings at 8am in Jacob’s Well for a time of discipleship teaching, discussion and prayer.  All teachers or leaders of groups in the discipleship area of Christ Church are welcome!
2. Tuesdays at the Well starts this week.  Pastor Temple will be teaching in the church coffee bar 7-8pm on the topic “Can We Get Past ‘Us’ Verses ‘Them’?”  This is the first of 5 Tuesdays in which he will teach on “Tough Topics Worth Talking About.”  The following Tuesdays will be dealing with doubts, confronting cultural biases, immigration, and how we should think about the Bible.

May God Bless you all and the Holy Spirit guide you in your group discussions this week!

Your Co-laborer in Christ,

Dan Conway

Pastor of Discipleship & Outreach

Christ Church

Dear Christ Church Small Group Leaders,

      What new epiphanies and revelations of God await us in this new year?  As we offer God our time and attention in worship and discipleship, it is indeed an awe inspiring question to contemplate!  We are blessed to be taking this journey together and I believe Christ has more for us to learn and do in His kingdom in through this “life on life” ministry of Christ Church. 

The small group discussion guide from today’s sermons on Epiphany Sunday is attached below.  It is also perfectly fine if your group is not ready to meet until next week.  As usual, please send out the discussion guide to your group members in advance in a friendly email from you reminding them of the meeting time and providing the link to the Sunday sermon in case they missed it –www.christchurchsl.org/sermons.

      Next week, we will begin a new three part sermon series, Mastering Money.  Also, if you have not picked up a daily devotional book yet for 2019, copies of The Domino Effect are still available at Jacob’s Well, the church coffee bar.

     Thank you for your being a part of this discipleship ministry in this new Winter Semester.

Your Co-laborer in Christ,

Dan Conway

Pastor of Discipleship & Outreach

Christ Church