Small Groups
The Faith and Work Ministry focuses on developing small groups. We believe the life-changing power of the Gospel is unleashed when people participate in communities that love and serve each other and live out their faith together. Small groups provide the opportunity to explore how the Gospel impacts you, your work, and your workplace. Groups gather at locations throughout the city and are formed based on specific curricula or topics.
Small Groups
SPRING 2010 CLASSES
Restoring Margin to Overloaded Lives
Do you feel as though you're already living at high speed yet things just keep going faster and faster? You are not alone. Join others in this 6-week small group study as we explore ways to create more "margin" in our lives. Margin is the space between your load and your limits. If you don't have enough time, money, physical energy, or emotional energy to accomplish your tasks for the week, you could be headed for system failure.
Study includes lessons to:
- Understand load and limits
- Find balance and maintain priorities
- Address the pain connected with overload
- Learn to shift to the simplicity that Jesus lived
- Create space in life to know and follow God's will
Date: Tuesdays beginning March 2, 6-week
Time: 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: Kensington
Facilitator: Kim Elliott
Cost: Free
Materials: Restoring Margin to Overloaded Lives Workbook ($15)
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Join Cedric Armstrong as he takes us on a journey of pursuing our call to engage with and cultivate culture through a series of movie nights. We will watch movies like The Big Kahuna and The Lives of Others followed by a titillating discussion of the movie and chapters from Andy Crouch’s award-winning book Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling. It promises to be a rousing evening full of fun and out-of-the-box thinking.
Date: Movie nights held the last Saturday every month through January 2010. Nine movie nights altogether.
Time: 6:00 – 9:00pm
Location: Mira Mesa area
Cost: Optional book cost: $14- scholarships available
Please sign up at info@faithandworkministry.org
Class Outline
Group Curriculum
Your Work Matters to God
Many Christians have a vague sense that their secular work is
insignificant compared to the work of Christian ministry.Your Work
Matters to God presents a liberating--and thoroughly
scriptural--demonstration of just how important secular work really is
to God.Culture Making
It is not enough to condemn culture. Nor is it sufficient merely to
critique culture or to copy culture. Most of the time, we just consume
culture. But the only way to change culture is to create culture. The
book unleashes a stirring manifesto calling Christians to be culture
makers. Culture is what we make of the world, both in creating cultural
artifacts as well as in making sense of the world around us. By making
chairs and omelets, languages and laws, we participate in the good work
of culture making. Wisdom at Work
Wisdom at Work is a book for anyone seeking to understand how their job - whether secular or religious - can connect deeply with the work God would have them do. It leads readers through Scripture and shows how work can be an act of worship. Readers will discover that the work place can become an arena for growth and truly is meant to be both purposeful and fulfilling. It combines Scriptural study with comments on history, culture, language, and literature for deeper insight.
Life @ Work
Life @ Work is a book for people of faith who want to be comfortable and intentional in two worlds -- the world of the kingdom and the world of the commercial -- blending and balancing their roles in each. The book identifies the basic tools followers of Jesus should always have in their work toolbox: Calling, Serving, Character, and Skill. By answering practical questions (like "Should I release this vendor from his obligation to pay because I am a Christian?") and incorporating pertinent biblical examples, the authors equip people of faith to make an eternal difference in their everyday lives.
Strengthsfinder
Join us as we explore the unique combination of your top five strengths as they relate to your life at work. Your work becomes more meaningful and satisfying as you work in ways that take into account how God wired you. Apply what you learn in practical ways that can improve your interpersonal relationships, levels of stress, and leadership in the workplace.
View from the Marketplace
In the interest of learning how to more effectively apply our faith in the workplace, this small group will take a unique approach by first gaining a better understanding of the marketplace itself followed by group discussion about the literature and personal experiences. This will be accomplished by group members reading a Harvard Business Review article prior to each group meeting - article topics include teamwork, leadership, etc.