Starting small groups: for the maintenance and mission of the congregation

Robert K Miller

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Starting small groups: for the maintenance and mission of the congregation

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Robert K Miller. Starting Small Groups: for the Maintenance and Mission of the Congregation. Hartford Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/08e71d94-a5fc-4728-9f97-ba280742ead7.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

R. K. Miller. Starting small groups: for the maintenance and mission of the congregation. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/08e71d94-a5fc-4728-9f97-ba280742ead7

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Robert K Miller. Starting Small Groups: for the Maintenance and Mission of the Congregation. Hartford Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/08e71d94-a5fc-4728-9f97-ba280742ead7.

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Robert K Miller

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Small groups guided by Christ's love provide the means for a congregation to grow spiritually and numerically as pastoral care is offered through mutual support, commitment, and accountability. The author studied the small group methodology by establishing a small group movement within the congregation using the elements of maintenance and mission. Maintenance activities include fellowship, education, and worship, which edify the members. Mission activities include evangelism, local and global outreach, and ecumenism for sharing the gospel with non-members. Lay led small groups provide a strategy for living out this maintenance/mission polarity in order to become a congregation of small groups, instead of being a congregation with small groups.

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