<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Oops. I meant to reply to all.<div><br><div><div>On Oct 27, 2011, at 10:45 AM, B. Heath Robinson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I absolutely agree. I am always interested in bringing the Gospel to bear on whatever is going on in our lives. As far as the topics go, I see them like recipes. Someone made the recipe up, so there is no reason why someone else (us) can't change them as long is the goal is the same. I don't want to become a fantasy football league or romance novel discussion group.</div><div><br></div><div>It makes me think of Shayor's sermon. He said he want small groups because he needed friends. In all likelihood, we all need more help applying the things we know rather than help knowing more things. This is the area where friends really help.</div><div><br></div><div>That being said, we do have a lesson each week. The leader has usually done some preparation. If no one derails him, he will probably go with the plan or just whatever is interesting to him. Not everyone is wrestling with the same things at the same times. For me, the hardest part of a group that deals more with what is going on in our lives is that we actually have to know and share what is going on in our lives. I'd say that takes time, but I really don't believe that. It takes freedom. It can be the freedom that comes from trusting another person or freedom that comes from trusting God.</div><div><br></div><div>One analogy might be dealing with authority. Sometimes it is easy to have peace when you are under authority. This is usually when the authority is good and is not particularly holy. Sometimes it is hard to have peace. This is when the authority is bad and is really the same as the first case. True peace comes from putting our trust in God and not the current state of the authority.</div><div><br></div><div>I am praying that our group does grow in this direction. I would exhort us all to be more willing to share and to ask questions. I'd say that our group is a safe place, but in very real ways it is not. It is principally not safe because God is there and he often has a radically different agenda than we do.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, Inez. I really appreciate you.</div><br><div><div>On Oct 27, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Inez Cobb wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma">I really enjoyed David's new letter received today and the other comments. I wish that our small group would take these items as they come up to discuss them, instead of rushing thought an assigned lesson. Who cares if it takes us a little longer to complete the lessons. Small group should be a place where we do not have to be so strict. If someone has a need or question we should be able to slow down and care for that. Just my thoughts wondering what everyone else thinks.</div>
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