As we get closer to the people around us, we will be salting their appetites for the Word of God and for a taste of what it means to live by faith, to live in freedom from sin and guilt. And to do this, we would like to offer them our preaching, our Sunday School and our small groups as places where they can listen. But we also want to offer them our individual lives. Opening our homes, as well as opening our church, is the next step in developing spiritually healthy people. As we do this, it will be a step in our own spiritual health because spiritually healthy people share the message of the Gospel.
Relationships are the key.
No one will come to church or small groups here for very long who doesn't also develop friendships with us. We have crossed over, most of us, from merely listening to the Gospel, and have begun to learn what it is all about. Coming to Christ is part of this level. We need to begin by emphasizing the grace of God. By stressing the means of grace, the God-given means by which believers can be reminded of the grace of God.