Monday, August 02, 2004
Home Group News
We have decided to move to fortnightly. Mainly because its too hard to get consistency when people are not there, and not everybody can come every Monday. I think this will be better.
Tonight we continued on in the follow up from the 40 days of purpose themes and looked at Unity in Fellowship. Admittedly I took most of my material from the pastor's talk on Sunday, but I was able to involve Miranda and the others in an icebreaker and activity demonstrating unity.
First we passed around a hat with questions to ask someone else printed on slips of paper. This elicited some information from people we wouldn't have otherwise known.
Then we used three glasses with a small amount of water in them and added a few drops of food colouring. Red, Yellow and Blue. We addded the Blue and Red to each other and made Purple and then added the Yellow to get a dark Green.
The point was; once added it was impossible to extract a colour from the final colour. By adding the individual components we had in fact created something different. The new entity requried the individual parts, and the individual parts could no longer exist outside of the entity.
Thus it is with the body of Christ the church. Once we are part of it we need all the other parts and the whole body itself as much as it needs us.
We then explored the statements:
We belong to each other.
We need each other - especially relevant to Jamie and Laurie after their mother and wife passed away last Sunday.
A lot of story telling - and grieving - was done. The healing process is working. It was great to just sit back and chat and relax over a hot chocolate and a Tim Tam.
Tonight we continued on in the follow up from the 40 days of purpose themes and looked at Unity in Fellowship. Admittedly I took most of my material from the pastor's talk on Sunday, but I was able to involve Miranda and the others in an icebreaker and activity demonstrating unity.
First we passed around a hat with questions to ask someone else printed on slips of paper. This elicited some information from people we wouldn't have otherwise known.
Then we used three glasses with a small amount of water in them and added a few drops of food colouring. Red, Yellow and Blue. We addded the Blue and Red to each other and made Purple and then added the Yellow to get a dark Green.
The point was; once added it was impossible to extract a colour from the final colour. By adding the individual components we had in fact created something different. The new entity requried the individual parts, and the individual parts could no longer exist outside of the entity.
Thus it is with the body of Christ the church. Once we are part of it we need all the other parts and the whole body itself as much as it needs us.
We then explored the statements:
We belong to each other.
We need each other - especially relevant to Jamie and Laurie after their mother and wife passed away last Sunday.
A lot of story telling - and grieving - was done. The healing process is working. It was great to just sit back and chat and relax over a hot chocolate and a Tim Tam.
