Ed Stetzer: The Right Culture for Community

Church community is not a once- or twice-a-week event—it's a matter of doing life together.

Recently Eric Geiger and I wrote a new book that we believe is very important for the church. The book is called Transformational Groups. We use the word "groups" generically, not simply as a reference to small groups. It can refer to whatever group strategy you use for discipleship, whether that be small groups, missional home communities, Sunday School, or something else entirely. We are convinced that the church has emphasized the weekend worship service so strongly that they have often neglected the importance of groups. This is tragic because we are convinced that groups are God's design for making disciples.

Below I have included an excerpt from the book that speaks to the creation of the right culture for community to happen. Over the next few weeks I want to feature a few selections from the book that I hope are helpful to you, and I hope will help us recommit ourselves to the importance of groups in our churches. Keep reading