Life Group Meeting Materials
Last Updated on October 26, 2021 by Rocklyn Clarke
Life Group Relaunch: As of September 2021, Life Church has re-launched our life groups!
Life Group Material
Life groups will generally use material from our Sunday sermons as the basis for their discussion of the Word during their weekly meetings. For the convenience of our members we usually include discussion material with the notes for our sermons. You can read the sermon notes and discussion material (as well as listen to the sermons) at the following link:
Sunday Life Page (Life Church sermons)
Not all life groups will choose to use this material, but it’s there if you need it.
Life Group Meeting Format (for holistic life groups)
The weekly meeting has 4 main components: Welcome, Worship, Word, Witness:
- The Order of the Cell Meeting (the 4 Ws) – Joel Comiskey Group
- The Best Small Group Order: Introducing the 4Ws – YouTube (00:04:45)
- Welcome – 15 minutes
- Spend about 15 minutes in casual conversation and/or an ice breaker activity that helps people relax and join in. Remember to start the welcome part of the meeting on time — you don’t have to wait for everyone to arrive. Please also end the welcome part of the meeting on time — you can move on to worship even if everyone hasn’t arrived yet!
You can find ice breakers on our Ice Breaker Page. - Worship – 20 minutes
- Spend about 20 minutes giving God well deserved praise.
- Here are some resources for the Worship portion of your meeting:
- Word – 40 minutes
- Work together on personally applying scripture to your lives. Your life group leaders may use the sample discussion questions above for this or they may take a different approach. Spend about 40 minutes — leave enough time for the “Witnessing” section!
- Here are some resources for the Word portion of your meeting:
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- What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)
- Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
- Question 2: “What is God saying to me through this passage?”
- Question 3: “How can I apply this passage throughout the week?”
- What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)
- Witness – 15 minutes
- Work together as a group to discovery opportunities for serving people outside the congregation and for developing relationships with unchurch people that can lead to them following Jesus. Spend about 15 minutes — end on time!
- Here are some resources for the Works portion of your meeting:
Please note that your life group meeting faciliator may switch around the order of the “4 W’s” every now and then.
Revisions
10/22/2021 – updated to add common life group resources block at the bottom of the page.
Last Updated on October 26, 2021 by Rocklyn Clarke