Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Now What?
As narrated by Morgan Freeman:
And your Life Group could be causality number 1. Life Groups are normally the thing that first gets lopped off the family calendar. BUT it doesn't have to be.
You could demand signed contracts from your folks to show up every week. I've had limited success with this plan. (Read - NONE.)
But other ideas work tremendously better.
First, take a health assessment of your group. Doesn't have to involve the whole group - but the LGL and Intern...possibly your Coach should sit down and walk through these questions here. You might be miles away from birthing a group. That's not really the point. The point is to figure out where exactly your group is - because that's going to help you figure out what's next.
Second, make the relationships the priority, not the schedules. Instead of Life Group one week - pick a ball game of one of the kids and all show up to cheer and holler at the refs. Or, bring a ref with you to holler at. Keith Sanders is available if you need one.
Third, capitalize on meal times. For some reason, we'll miss alot of things but a meal. So leverage that. One week - crash Wendy's or Subway or whatever is available and eat together.
Fourth, keep trudging through it. Don't cancel hooking up just because somebody or even a majority will be out. Your only limited by your creativity. I about had a revolt in my Life Group by teaching them Mexican Train. But now they like it. Okay...they don't like it but they aren't complaining as much about it.
Keep walking!
Every year the human promises to slow down and do less things in the spring...every year the human does more.That should be the voice over of the American household as it enters Spring. Ball games, Dance recitals, school projects, spring break...you name it - it happens in the spring.
And your Life Group could be causality number 1. Life Groups are normally the thing that first gets lopped off the family calendar. BUT it doesn't have to be.
You could demand signed contracts from your folks to show up every week. I've had limited success with this plan. (Read - NONE.)
But other ideas work tremendously better.
First, take a health assessment of your group. Doesn't have to involve the whole group - but the LGL and Intern...possibly your Coach should sit down and walk through these questions here. You might be miles away from birthing a group. That's not really the point. The point is to figure out where exactly your group is - because that's going to help you figure out what's next.
Second, make the relationships the priority, not the schedules. Instead of Life Group one week - pick a ball game of one of the kids and all show up to cheer and holler at the refs. Or, bring a ref with you to holler at. Keith Sanders is available if you need one.
Third, capitalize on meal times. For some reason, we'll miss alot of things but a meal. So leverage that. One week - crash Wendy's or Subway or whatever is available and eat together.
Fourth, keep trudging through it. Don't cancel hooking up just because somebody or even a majority will be out. Your only limited by your creativity. I about had a revolt in my Life Group by teaching them Mexican Train. But now they like it. Okay...they don't like it but they aren't complaining as much about it.
Keep walking!
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