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Community Groups (The 3 Legged Stool)

At Trinity Community Church I like to think of our community groups and the three legged stool. A three legged stool is useless if it doesn’t have all three legs. Take away one of the legs and you no longer have a stool that will support you. The same is true for the community group, home group, fellowship group or whatever your church happens to call your small group ministry. While we could always add more legs to our stool, I find it best to operate small groups with clarity and simplicity. Let’s dive in!

3 Little Foxes (Marriage)

Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.”

Song of Solomon 2:15

Here in the Song of Solomon the bride to be is saying to her soon to be husband to catch the little foxes for us. Catch them before they destroy the vineyard.

These small animals could absolutely destroy a large vineyard. The vineyard in verse 15 represents their growing relationship. A blossoming vineyard relationship. So she says to her man, catch them before they destroy us.

This is just as important today as the day it was penned. Little foxes are the small problems that sneak into the relationship/vineyard and destroy it.

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Marriage Builder (Creation-Redemption-Eternity)

No one sets out to destroy one’s marriage! Nobody plans to sabotage marital bliss and couples never imagined on their wedding day that their undying love would one day come to a devastating and painful end! While couples don’t plan to one day divorce, sadly, we also often don’t plan to do what it takes to grow our marriage. Think of the next series of posts as my attempt to help us all think and plan and put in some effort to keep ourselves from sabotaging the most important human relationship you and I will ever have on this earth.

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Relational Wisdom 360 By Ken Sande

Defusing Explosive Meetings

Have you ever been in a meeting that was about to explode? dynamite-300x300

You could feel the tension building with each person’s comments and knew it was just a matter of time before the dynamite went off.

It might have been a conversation with your spouse or teenager. Maybe it was a staff meeting at the office. Or, sometimes most volatile of all, a congregational meeting at your church.

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