Small Groups Quotes

“Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.”
― Henri Nouwen

“The same process that makes AA so effective—the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe—happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.”
― Charles Duhigg

“Conformity is a problem for many small groups. Members put a higher priority on cohesion than on coming up with a well-reasoned choice. They pressure dissenters, shield themselves from negative feedback, keep silent when they disagree ...”
― Craig E. Johnson, Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow

“So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.”
― James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

“Membership in small groups allows people to feel similar and different at the same time: similar because they are a part of a group in different because the group is separate from the masses.”
― Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

“Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolated and alone in our sin.”
― Richard J Foster, Celebration of Discipline

“When the Holy Spirit demands attention, He clunks you on the head.”
― Gina R Napoli

“To summarize; salvation is not a reward for being or doing good, but a gift which we claim by faith, as the Apostle Paul stated, “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.”
― Reid A. Ashbaucher, Christianity 101: A Simpler Way Forward