Life

Make a Cluster!

Posted on by Jason Nicholas

Make a cluster?

Im talking small groups today and here’s the deal…

Small groups of close people mean you’re a family.

Family will support, love, encourage and even be willing to risk their lives for you. It can be hard but in the end you will be thankful.

Small groups of close people have a connection.

You can be real, open, honest, share your struggles and your joys. You have people to celebrate the victories with you and comfort in the losses.

Small groups of close people stay connected.

90% of people in a small group don’t lose touch with the church or become wishy-washy with their faith. Iron sharpens Iron and your small group will sharpen you!

Small groups of close people are real.

They are real with each other, others and themselves. You can’t hide from people who know you. No fake it till you make it because they know who you are!

FIND A GROUP, MAKE A GROUP, WHATEVER IT TAKES.

DONT GO THROUGH LIFE ALONE…..ITS BORING AND PAINFUL!! 

“We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.”    Sonia Johnson

J


Whats going on with you?

Posted on by Jason Nicholas

We have been having a nightly devotional with the kids each night and a couple of nights ago it had to do with butterflies.

Now we all know that the caterpillar spins itself into a cocoon(Pupa) and comes out a beautiful butterfly but usually we don’t ever think about the process of its transformation.

Did you know that some species are in their cocoon for several months and some transform in just a few days? How crazy is that?

How about you? Are there some things in your life that may take a few days to work a transformation or will it take months?

2 Corinthians  5:17 says that “If anyone belongs to Christ, then he is made new. The old things have gone; everything is made new!”  There will be things in our lives that seem hard and difficult and we can’t understand or explain them but don’t worry and allow God to transform you! The transformation process may (most likely will) be hard but the outcome will be so much greater.

Just think of the caterpillar. He was crawling on the ground looking up but after the transformation that guy can fly!!

God is taking the “regular you”  and transforming you in tho the “new creation you”!

DON’T FORGET!

What you achieve by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you become getting there! (Wickwire)

Allow the  process, as good or as bad as you think it is, to let God transform you!

PS: Never judge your future by your past. Every butterfly was born a worm.

J