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I'm the lead pastor of a great and very unconventional church - Church At The Movies, with campuses in Ronkonkoma and Mastic, NY - and I love doing what I do. We have hundreds of fellow radicals in our congregations who, like me, are committed to doing church for the unchurched. Totally apart from my church involvement, I work a few hours a week as a Weight Loss Consultant for Weight Watchers, which I thoroughly enjoy.

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Small Groups

Got my first chance to get to my 40 Days small group this morning and thoroughly enjoyed it. I know I'm the person who told everyone they should commit to miss nothing for the next six weeks and then went off to India myself, but that trip was a commitment I made last year, before the campaign came up.

So now I'm playing catch-up. We have a great group - nine people, three of whom are fairly new to the church. It's taking some groups a while just to get comfortable as in a church our size, when a group meets for the first time, they might well be strangers to one another. Looks like our crowd are getting to know each other. I liked the coffee and bagels too (just half a bagel, honest!).

Small groups are an essential part of a church that is looking to grow relationally and not just gather a crowd on Sundays.

So if you're not in one yet, it's still not too late. The best half of the material is still to come - but jump in now whatever you do!