GBC Small GroupsLife's Healing Choices |
Sept 2022 - Jun 2023 |
As we consider ways to continue growing in community and authentic life transformation, the GBC Small Groups Team invites you to learn and grow through an eight week small group study – Life’s Healing Choices. This study is made by the same people that organize Celebrate Recovery. The study considers eight of the beatitudes, part of Jesus’s teaching in The Sermon on the Mount.
Why Life’s Healing Choices?
This series is for imperfect people who desire to make progress spiritually, emotionally and relationally in a gracious and accepting atmosphere. It will challenge your vulnerability limits. It will strengthen your trust levels. Life’s Healing Choices is an opportunity to deepen our experience of community in the context of God’s Love, the Gospel, and the invitation to Transformation found in Romans 12.
Life's Healing Choices series begins on Tuesday, January 24 at 7pm. If you already participate in a Small Group, please speak to your Small Group Facilitator, as some Small Groups may choose to meet at a different time. You do not need to be part of a Small Group to participate in this series. Our time together will consist of worship, a video teaching, discussion and prayer. Please contact Jacob Ginter (smallgroups@guelphbiblechapel.ca) if you have any questions.
Why Life’s Healing Choices?
This series is for imperfect people who desire to make progress spiritually, emotionally and relationally in a gracious and accepting atmosphere. It will challenge your vulnerability limits. It will strengthen your trust levels. Life’s Healing Choices is an opportunity to deepen our experience of community in the context of God’s Love, the Gospel, and the invitation to Transformation found in Romans 12.
Life's Healing Choices series begins on Tuesday, January 24 at 7pm. If you already participate in a Small Group, please speak to your Small Group Facilitator, as some Small Groups may choose to meet at a different time. You do not need to be part of a Small Group to participate in this series. Our time together will consist of worship, a video teaching, discussion and prayer. Please contact Jacob Ginter (smallgroups@guelphbiblechapel.ca) if you have any questions.
Organized Small Group Offerings
GROUP 1 | SERMON-BASED STUDY | ONLINE
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This group follows the preaching schedule at GBC, engaging the content taught Sunday mornings through a series of questions.
Our group will endeavor to see how we, as individuals and as church members, apply God's word in our lives. We will also seek to come together outside of our small group time to connect with one another and serve the Guelph community.
Our group will endeavor to see how we, as individuals and as church members, apply God's word in our lives. We will also seek to come together outside of our small group time to connect with one another and serve the Guelph community.
GROUP 2 | DISCOVERY BIBLE STUDY | IN PERSON
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Our group desires to understand and live out God’s Word in our daily lives. We also seek to grow in our relationships with one another, through sharing and prayer and through spending time together both in our Small Group time and in other ways.
This groups planned study is on the life of Joseph in the book of Genesis.
This groups planned study is on the life of Joseph in the book of Genesis.
GROUP 3 | SERMON-BASED STUDY | IN PERSON
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This group follows the preaching schedule at GBC, taking an in-depth look into the sermon and how it encourages and challenges us in our day to day lives.
GROUP 4 | DISCOVERY BIBLE STUDY | IN PERSON
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This approach focuses on seeing God – His character, His actions, His purposes, and His directions – in scripture. Additionally, we see how the people in scripture align with God’s purposes, the struggles they face, their character – the good and the bad – and how the depiction of people has implications for our lives today. You will be challenged to integrate what you have learned and to engage others with your progress. Various approaches to studying the Scriptures are applied by participating members. Our group will also seek to come together outside of our small group time to connect with one another and serve the Guelph community.
Why Small Groups?Believing that Christ calls our church to participate in making disciples of all the world’s nations, GBC Small Groups foster community, encourage spiritual maturity and provide an opportunity to develop our spiritual gifts. Groups are also encouraged to live out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through acts of service and evangelistic efforts.
We seek to make it possible for all GBC members to participate in Small Groups. Small Groups provide a natural mechanism for relationship-building and member care in our church family. Small Groups also play a vital role in pursuing an intentional discipleship path. Our Small Groups enjoy a sense of family, sharing responsibilities, using God-given gifts, and caring for one another and our community in practical ways. Partnering with GBC's Outreach Team, the Small Groups Team expects to announce opportunities for service suitable for individuals or the entire Small Group.
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Small Group Purpose Elements
Small Groups provide an environment for fellowship, giving, receiving, learning, sharing, encouraging, praying, confessing, and celebrating. We grow in community and discipleship in this context. We encourage each member of each small group to live out their purpose as an important contributor to health of the group. Relationships developed in Small Groups provide members with the opportunity to pursue life-on-life discipleship in an emotionally healthy context. Small Groups also form team, like a family, to engage in mission with those in our circles of influence and relationship. Service and mission as a Small Group proclaims publicly our life in Christ.
- Experiencing Community (fellowship, relationship, mutual encouragement)
- Fostering Spiritual Development (growing as a disciple, understanding God's Word, exercising spiritual disciplines)
- Bible-centred discussion (a variety of study approaches offered)
- Prayer (audible, silent, individual, and group prayer practiced)
- Integrating Service/Outreach (each group selects their area of service)
Equipping and Support
The Small Group Leadership Team consists of Dan Chapman, Michelle and James Farnsworth, and Karen and Jacob Ginter. The Team is committed to equipping and supporting Small Group Facilitators in their catalytic role.