SMALL GROUPS

Welcome to The Village Home Groups

Home groups are intentional efforts to create an atmosphere that causes believers and non-believers to grow in their understanding and application of God's direction in our lives. Home groups help create Biblical community.

Throughout the Bible, community is a theme. God has always been calling out a people for Himself, beginning with His first creation and continuing with Israel and the New Testament church. Even when the Jews were dispersed among enemy nations during times of captivity, they organized themselves into groups and ultimately formed synagogues, where they could serve one another and carry out their beliefs.

In Acts 2, the first century church met in temple courts (Sunday morning worship) and in house to house (home group) settings. These new church communities began as small groups, just as Jesus had modeled with the 12 (Mark 3:14; Luke 6:12-19).

Over 50 Biblical "one anothers" admonish us to be closely involved with a few others (home groups) in order that we might learn and imitate attitudes and behaviors that characterize God's household – the community of believers.