community groups

And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.  …And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. (Acts 2:42, 47)

overhead shot showing a group of church members sitting around a living room in a home during community group in Fairmont, WV

Outside of corporate worship on Sundays, every Christian is called to and sustained by a life of community, discipleship, and mission together.


Community Groups at CR are the primary framework to cultivate and support authentic, biblical community and missional living among 12-24 people.

 

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What are Community Groups?

Community Groups at Crossroads are a framework and tool,

each consisting of 12-24 adults and their children, in order to translate Scripture into everyday life by cultivating biblical community, discipleship, and mission among Crossroads members.  These groups are not built around age or stage-of-life or shared affinities.  Rather, they are multi-generational. (Prov. 27:17-18; Acts 2:42-47; Rom. 12:10; 15:7 Gal. 5:13; 6:1-2; Eph. 4:32; Col. 1:9-12; 1 Thess. 4:18; Hebrews 3:12-13; James 5:16; 1 Pet. 4:9; 5:5)


Community

Because we want to cultivate biblical community and fellowship among Crossroads members, our community groups adopt the regular practices of:

Family Meals - everyone has an opportunity to practice hospitality towards one another each week by contributing to the shared meal together.  Meals are a vital way to get to know others and be known by others.  This provides a starting-point for mutual care, growth in unity, and effective discipleship, usually on the same nights as sermon discussion.


Discipleship

Sermon Discussion - Leader-guided discussion for translating that week’s sermon passage to everyday life, usually on the same nights as Family Meals.

Discipleship Circles - They gather in smaller groups on a different occasion than the larger CG gathering for deeper confession of sin, exhortation, and prayer for one another.


Mission

Through encouragement, prayer, and daily focus in our individual lives and through a Micro-Mission effort a few times each semester, each community group works together to actively meet and verbally point people to Christ.


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Who Leads Community Groups?

Groups are led by qualified leaders who cast vision, facilitate discussion, cultivate a Gospel culture, and help every member of their group engage in community, discipleship, and mission through the group and in their everyday lives.


Community group leaders lead sermon discussions and Bible and book studies. They pray for and with the members of their group, lovingly confront sin with the truth, and provide the first line of soul care for the members of their group.



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Frequently Asked Questions

Who Should Join Community Groups?

Every member of Crossroads Church covenants to be involved in discipleship, community, and mission through Community Groups if in any way possible.


Any newcomer to Crossroads seeking to connect with the church will discover the heart and soul of the church in Community Groups.


Any unbeliever interested in Christianity or authentic community should discover a community that authenticates the Gospel in Community Groups.

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What are Community Groups?

Our God is a perfect community of Father, Son, and Spirit. As image-bearers of God (Genesis 1:26-27), we were created for community. Apart from God, we will not achieve the community we long for, but through the Gospel Christ has bought a people for himself, and it is only in Christ that we can have true fellowship with God and one another (1 John 1:5-10).

Community Groups provide a space for Gospel community together.


Jesus commanded every follower of Jesus to make disciples. That includes sharing the Gospel of Jesus’ perfect life for our righteousness, sacrificial death for our sin, and physical resurrection for our new life in mission together, but also growing in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ together in discipleship through the sanctifying Word of God. Community Groups provide a space for mission and discipleship together.

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What Do Community Groups Do That I Cannot Do Alone?

Open our Bibles together and encourage one another to believe and obey.


Fulfill the “one anothers” commanded of Christians. (Romans 12:10, Romans 15:7, Galatians 5:13, Galatians 6:2, Ephesians 4:32, 1 Thessalonians 4:18, James 5:16, 1 Peter 4:9, 1 Peter 5:5)


Confess our sins to one another (James 5:16)


Hold one another accountable (Galatians 6:1-2)


Bear one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2)


Pray for and with one another. (Colossians 1: 9-12)


Make passionate followers of Jesus Christ together in community (Acts 2: 42-47)

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