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Life Transformed – The Importance of Small Groups – Part 4
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This has been my experience. A small group devoted to helping one another grow and change is very different from a group meeting for almost any other purpose. This is why I’m such a stickler for small, closed groups.
The Sandfords say, “Our group must meet often enough, with regularity, having permission to accost us with truth in love, if we are to see incisively enough to learn to hate our minds’ deceptions. Unfortunately, many groups succumb to the god of niceness until too few tell one another the truth anymore. The carnal mind fights honesty, vulnerability, openness, and corporateness even as it fights prayer.”
They continue, “there is no other antidote to the pride and isolationism of our carnal mind than becoming determined to submit ourselves to the ministry of others, however faulty we my fear them to be.”
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