Group Leader Development

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What does a Life Group look like?
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Ephesians 41-16

• Therefore--v1a (NASB)

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• Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly
  beyond all that we ask or think, according to the
  power that works within us, to Him be the glory
  in the church and in Christ Jesus to all
  generations forever and ever. Amen. -- Eph
  320-21 NASB

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• The Power and Purpose of Life Groups (Eph.
  320-21)
• Kingdom work is always done by Gods power and
  for His glory.

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• Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore
  you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling
  with which you have been called,  with all
  humility and gentleness, with patience, showing
  tolerance for one another in love, being diligent
  to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond
  of peace. --v1-3 NASB

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• From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him
  the elders of the church.  18And when they had
  come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves
  know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia,
  how I was with you the whole time, serving the
  Lord with all humility and with tears and with
  trials which came upon me through the plots of
  the Jews how I did not shrink from declaring to
  you anything that was profitable, and teaching
  you publicly and from house to house,
• --Acts 2017-20 (NASB)

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• The Structure of Life Groups (Eph 41-13)

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• The Structure of Life Groups (Eph 41-13)
• The Life Group is the place where we model
  Christ.

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• The Structure of Life Groups (Eph 41-13)
• The Life Group is the place where we model
  Christ.
• The Life Group is where we walk worthy (v 1)

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• Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore
  you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling
  with which you have been called,
• --v 1 (NASB)

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• Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore
  you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling
  with which you have been called,
• --v 1 (NASB)
• What is the calling?

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• And we know that God causes all things to work
  together for good to those who love God, to those
  who are called according to His purpose. For
  those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to
  become conformed to the image of His Son, so that
  He would be the firstborn among many brethren
  --Romans 828-29 (NASB)

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• The Structure of Life Groups (Eph 41-13)
• The Life Group is the place where we model
  Christ.
• The Life Group is where we walk worthy (v 1)
• The Calling is Christlikeness. (Romans 828-29)

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• with all humility and gentleness, with patience,
  showing tolerance for one another in love, being
  diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in
  the bond of peace. --v2-3 NASB

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• The Structure of Life Groups (Eph 41-13)
• The Life Group is the place where we model
  Christ.
• The Life Group is where we walk worthy (v 1)
• The Calling is Christlikeness. (Romans 828-29)
• The Life Group is where we practice the one
  anothers. (v 2)

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• There is one body and one Spirit, just as also
  you were called in one hope of your calling one
  Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father
  of all who is over all and through all and in
  all. But to each one of us grace was given
  according to the measure of Christ's gift. --v4-7
  NASB

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• Therefore it says,         "WHEN HE ASCENDED ON
  HIGH,         HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF
• CAPTIVES, AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO
• MEN."
• (Now this expression, "He ascended," what does it
  mean except that He also had descended into the
  lower parts of the earth? He who descended is
  Himself also He who ascended far above all the
  heavens, so that He might fill all things.)
• --v8-10 NASB

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• And He gave some as apostles, and some as
  prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as
  pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the
  saints for the work of service, to the building
  up of the body of Christ until we all attain to
  the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of
  the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure
  of the stature which belongs to the fullness of
  Christ. --v11-13 NASB

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• The Structure of Life Groups (Eph 41-13)
• The Life Group is the place where we model
  Christ.
• The Life Group is where we walk worthy (v 1)
• The Calling is Christlikeness. (Romans 828-29)
• The Life Group is where we practice the one
  anothers. (v 2)
• The Life Group is the place where we use our
  gifts.

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• As a result, we are no longer to be children,
  tossed here and there by waves and carried about
  by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of
  men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming but
  speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in
  all aspects into Him who is the head, even
  Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted
  and held together by what every joint supplies,
  according to the proper working of each
  individual part, causes the growth of the body
  for the building up of itself in love. --v14-16
  NASB

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• The Result of Life Groups (Eph 414-16)
• In a Life Group, every person can become like
  Christ as we build each other up in love.

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• The Result of Life Groups (Eph 414-16)
• In a Life Group, every person can become like
  Christ as we build each other up in love.
• The Church grows!