Newlife Church Homegroup Training
1. The Hand model
Audio clip of Bill Beckam (introducing the hand model @0:55–7:00
- Thumb—core of the cell: Abiding in Christ
- 4th finger—Accountability: mutual support system/partners
- 3rd finger—Leadership and leadership development
- 2nd finger—Equipping: every new believer is developed
- 1st finger—Evangelism
Notes
- The presence of Christ exists, we don’t have to create it
- Community can’t be manufactured
- Unity flows out of the unity that already exists in Christ.
- Attempts to manufacture community will fail for many reasons.
- We have to die to ourselves and our own interests and sacrificially love one another.
- We need three: the current leader, the backup leader, and the leader for the new group when the cell divides.
- There are opportunities for everyone in the group to use their gifts and to develop them.
- Concept of “fishing as a team”
2. Fun Group Activity
- Do this survey together, averaging the response for Newlife’s groups:
3. The Four W’s
- Welcome
- Worship
- Word
- World
- Go through Prototype Booklet Moving to Cells pages 9-15
4. Group Activity: Sample outlines
- Read and discuss the first 6 outlines (as time allows): Prototype Booklet Moving to Cells pages 24f
Further Study
- Listen to Bill Beckam’s seminar, sections 4–7
