1. METHOD GROUPS ONE

2. GROUPS “are the best VEHICLES that we have at our disposal to help carry us toward our desired destination (becoming like Christ and inviting others into God’s family).” ONE

3. LARGE GROUP - Crossing Together.

4. SMALL GROUP - Community Group.

5. SMALLER GROUP - Group of 2 or 3.

7. “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-- and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” Hebrews 10:23-25 NIV

8. 4 Commands Here: 1. “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess,” 2. “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds…” 3. “Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing.”

9. 4 Commands Here: 4. “but let us encourage one another-- and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”

10. Practical Reasons : 1. Groups provide spiritual protection. 1 Pet. 5:8 2. Groups provide accountability. Gen. 4:7, Rom. 7 3. Groups provide practical help for daily life issues. 4. Groups provide a structured but easy-to-follow system that God can use to help us fulfill our mission as a church.

11. Putting Feet on This Message : 1.Become committed to Crossing group life (Crossing Together, Community Group, etc) 3. Take your group relationships to the next level. 2. ‘Just say no’ to lame excuses to skip out on group life. 4. Become a “Bringer.”

13. the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." 25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

14. Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 1 Corinthians 11:23-29 ESV