GLC - Session 2

Session 2 – Mindy Caliquire

“Your souls health drives everything that matters to you in your life”

That’s powerful and so truth. WOW. If my spiritual health is bad my job, my money, my relationships, my fun, my cerativity, etc ……can’t be better then how my soul is. My soul health is the bench mark and ceiling for everything else in my life. I think that means that I have to change some prioities.

Soul : Everyones soul goes through change in their life no matter who they are or what they believe.
Phil 1:6 – He who began the good work (God) in us will be faithful to complete it. I passage I often forget. So God is working on our soul and lives as a whole through out our lives to a completion point.

Phil 2:12 – Work out your salvation through fear and trembaling. Not work for salvation that is done if you are in Christ. SO whats the work we do to work through our salvation. We have to make effort to pay attention to what God is doing in our lives. He is working 24/7. We need to see, hear, listen so that He can work better. These are often called spiritual practices: Large group settings, small groups, and private settings. We need all three categories. Each one is unique and required. God uses interpersonal settings (small groups) to shape and mold us into who he has created us to be.

Analogy: God and I sitting at a table. I bring my soul and heart to the table and He brings his power. God is the only one who can shape and mold the human soul. What we bring to the table is not impressive but bring it we must because God doesn’t move into the human soul uninvited. He doesn’t kick down soul doors. Every spirtual practice helps us stop running, pull up a chair around the table to receive from God what only God can give. God sets the agenda at this table. He decides what to work on and what to hold off.

I think same analogy applies to the local church. We need to sit down at the table with God, lay it on the table and let him bring the power.

Stages of Small Groups:

Early groups: Need a lot of direction, young believers

Medium groups: Really sitting and learning at the feet of Jesus Teaching people to go AWOL, A Way Of Life. Not of the world.

Simplicity Group: Focussing on the race that is marked out for ME. And beign more dependant on my group to help me sit down at the table with God.