In sharing responses to these lifestyle circumstances, participants can find out what they believe, for we tend to reveal what we believe in the way we act every day. Thus small groups help us bridge from faith to life operations and back again. Groups become forums for idea development, for they unconsciously mold and form convictions and understandings. In expressing yourself in a small group, you are cementing what you think. The feedback received helps reform that formational idea.
Accountability is desired and feared, but progress demands it.
A caring unit of persons comprising a group can help a person achieve desired outcomes simply by checking up and holding him or her accountable for commitments made. Shared existence is richer. As the old hymn states about the perspective of the reborn on the natural world, Skies above are softer blue, Earth around is sweeter green, Something lives in every hue Christless eyes have never seen. Likewise, the perspective on the world of small-group relatedness has a distinctively Christian dimension. As believers we approach groups differently from those in the world.