This Christian Life

Small Group Report

I don’t know why it’s been 6 days since I had my first small group on “postmodernism” and I haven’t reported it on this site yet. Maybe going to church tomorrow has put me in the mindset.

Small group went well. There were 7 people there including me and my wife. Not a great turnout, but it was a good discussion nonetheless. The ages ranged from ~25 years old to ~70 which is a good mixture. The class had a simple agenda: to introduce the concept of why postmodernism is affecting the church today. I basically told my story and perspective on the whole thing and asked the class to join me in a quest to figure out what, if anything we need to do in response to it.

The discussion went so well that I kind of had to put a stop to it 2 hours after it started. That was a good sign.

Nonetheless, I’m a little frustrated with the turnout. After having put a flyer in every mailbox as a way of advertising, I’m concerned that the people in our church don’t care about the subject. The only people there were either there by default, or by personal invitation from me. (Although the chair and vice chair of the church council both told me the would attend if they weren’t teaching a small group themselves.)

Anyway, not a bad start. If only these people come, that’s still a good start. Besides, I’ll use some of the same reasoning in the committee I’ve been asked to be on to “re-vision” our church’s vision.