Traversing Transition

“Traversing” means to pass over, along, or through. Traversing transition has been the topic of the last few blog posts.  Further, the comments have been excellent.  This blog community continues to link arms with each other in such important matters as...

Life Stories

Elie Wiesel wrote, “God made man because he loves stories.” Let me present to you a sad reality that may exist in your cell (church).  Your cell may have “been together” and “with each other” for months and not know the life stories...

Questions

I stumbled upon something that I would like to offer to this JCG community.  What I stumbled upon deals with Celebration AND Cells.  In recent weeks, I’ve been teaching on the parables of Christ.  This past Sunday, I taught on the Rich Man and Lazarus.  I taught...

Hanging Between Two Worlds

In light of Joel’s post yesterday, I like what Peter Scazzero writes in his book, The Emotionally Healthy Church.  “My most effective discipleship is to be an incarnational presence to another person.  It was for Jesus.  It is, I believe, for all his...

EASTER Celebration

The early pioneers of the cell movement in America tapped into a beautiful metaphor concerning the cell church.  They stated, “The cell church is a two winged church– cells and celebration.”  They explained the metaphor by talking about how the...