{"id":4941,"date":"2018-08-13T18:53:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyonleadership.brentwoodbaptistonline.com\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2018-08-13T18:53:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:53:19","slug":"3-paths-inviting-people-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadership.brentwoodbaptist.com\/adult-discipleship\/3-paths-inviting-people-group\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Paths for Inviting People to Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>By Paul Wilkinson<\/address>\n<p>We always need to keep invitation and outreach in front of our members\u2019 minds. The natural drift, and it\u2019s not evil, is insular; that is to say, over time we will become comfortable with \u201cour church people\u201d and \u201cour church friends\u201d leading to complacency. But we are called to make disciples, not only of \u201cour church friends,\u201d but of lost and searching friends and others we don\u2019t even know yet, who are yet to believe. With that in mind, here are three paths to invite people to group (and remember that a safe place to invite folks to is a group fellowship, rather than the Bible study proper):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Supernaturally<\/strong> \u2013 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">P<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">ray for the Holy Spirit to quicken minds so that people come to group<\/span><\/strong>. We have lots of folks wandering in who have recently moved here for a plethora of reasons and we have lots of people walking in to \u201ctry out\u201d Brentwood Baptist. Leverage your campus pastor\u2019s talent to attract the unconnected; pray those people find your group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Internally<\/strong> \u2013 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">M<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">ost of our members, no matter what campus you\u2019re on, are unconnected to groups<\/span><\/strong>. If you see someone wandering around that you don\u2019t know, introduce yourself and invite them to group. If your group aims at parents of preschoolers, then hang out around the preschool area to invite parents, and the same for children\u2019s and students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Externally<\/strong> \u2013 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Look around your neighborhood and the normal rhythms of your life<\/span> <\/strong>(dog walking, grocery store, sports practice) and pray about who you should be inviting into community. Remember that the Spirit goes before you working in the minds of those that you\u2019ll be convicted to invite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seek to incorporate all 3 paths into your group but start wherever your heart currently is. We don\u2019t want to grow for growth\u2019s sake and we don\u2019t want to grow to hit some arbitrary metric we\u2019ve chosen, rather we want to grow because our communities are full of lost and searching families who are unbelievers or unchurched. <strong><u>We want the abundant life for them, so pray about your role in introducing them to biblical community<\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Paul Wilkinson We always need to keep invitation and outreach in front of our members\u2019 minds. The natural drift, and it\u2019s not evil, is insular; that is to say, over time we will become comfortable with \u201cour church people\u201d and \u201cour church friends\u201d leading to complacency. 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