Are You Content?

Last Thursday (August 7, 2008) our Small Group celebrated two years of meeting weekly in our house. Our Small Group, or SG, is called "Brownies, Cookies e Presença de Deus" (meaning; "Brownies, Cookies and the Presence of God"). By request of our SG leader, I Bar-B-Qued three racks of ribs and three pork shoulders. It was a great time of the "Three F's" (food, fun and fellowship). I would love to be able to show you a photo, but the camera and the computer are having a dispute right now and I think that the computer has lost!

Anyway, the subject of gratitude came up and our pastor made the comment that whenever he has someone from the church come to his office for counseling, the first question that he asks the person is if they are participating in a Small Group? His observation was that many times when a person is actively participating in a SG, then the SG usually helps the person through their difficulty, thus there is usually no need of counseling from our pastor.

This caused me to remember the times in our family's life when we've gone through difficult and joyous time, it's been the support and the fellowship of either our Sunday School (SS) or Small Group that walked with us through these life events.

I guess that this then leads me to ask the question that is in my title, "Are you content?" If you're not, then maybe it's because you don't feel that you have the support of your SG or SS. If that's the case, then ask yourself, "what do I need to do to gain this support?" Prior to coming to Brazil, it was the support of the Young Adult Sunday School class of the First Baptist Church of Cushing, Oklahoma. Now, we get this same support (love, fellowship, feedback, etc.) in our weekly Small Group. Where is your's coming from?