Ed Walsh
Puritan Board Senior
Greeting,
It is a fairly common practice in many churches to encourage the formation of Small Groups, i.e., cell groups, nurture groups, etc.) But is this a good thing? And if good what rules should govern? Personally, I have both led and enjoyed these groups finding them to be a unique form of edification.
But, The Westminster Standards, in The Directory for Family Worship it states:
Thanks!
It is a fairly common practice in many churches to encourage the formation of Small Groups, i.e., cell groups, nurture groups, etc.) But is this a good thing? And if good what rules should govern? Personally, I have both led and enjoyed these groups finding them to be a unique form of edification.
But, The Westminster Standards, in The Directory for Family Worship it states:
VI. At family-worship, a special care is to be had that each family keep by themselves; neither requiring, inviting, nor admitting persons from divers families, unless it be those who are lodged with them, or at meals, or otherwise with them upon some lawful occasion.
Westminster Assembly. (1851). The Westminster Confession of Faith: Edinburgh Edition (p. 538). Philadelphia: William S. Young.
What do you think? Please share any experience with small groups you think helpful.
Thanks!