In 3 hours, I'm thrilled to be leading Getting a Grip on Groups! There will be about 45 people attending from churches around the country to hear about the culture and strategies we use to help people enter into relationship with one another at GCC. There will be over 300 people in the building attending all the workshops - it's a great day!
The purpose is not to have people mimic what we do. It's fine if they want to, but it's not the purpose. The purpose is to help them understand who we are, what we do, and why we believe it's the right fit for us. By sharing the questions that we ask ourselves, we hope they'll ask questions that will help them discover what God wants them to do in their church, with their leaders, with their people.
Coming into this, I've had a week where I simply didn't feel very effective. I have met with people who are in a lot of pain. I keep asking God to show me what else I could say to help them "get it". Nothing. I know he loves them. Trust God.
There are times as a leader when we don't understand how something can work great one day, and the very next day, it's doesn't seem effective at all. Is it us? What should we change? Where? When? How?
Those are the times when I need to "Get a Grip." For me, that means "Let go." I need to remind myself that I'm human. It doesn't have to be perfect. God is God. I'm not. Relax. It's all a mystery. Bring the skills and talents he's given me to the table, and rest in the truth that God's got a grip on all of it.
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