Communicating with Each Other Effectively

I really enjoyed reading this week’s Discipleship Tip of the Week from Anne Ortlund (see below). Imagine if we could master these 13 ways to communicate to one another. Our Small Groups @ Greenbrier would be even more incredible than they are now.

May the joy of the Lord be yours this week!

Pastor Curtis

(excerpt from Anne Ortlund’s Discipleship Tip of the Week)

Has your group studied the ways the New Testament tells us to communicate with each other as believers? When you take out the repetitions there are 13:

1. Suffering together: 1 Cor. 12:26
2. Rejoicing together: Rom. 12:15
3. Carrying each other’s burdens: Gal. 6:2
4. Restoring each other: Gal. 6:1
5. Praying for one another: Rom. 15:30
6. Teaching and admonishing each other: Col. 3:16
7. Refreshing one another: Rom. 15:32
8. Encouraging each other: Rom. 1:12
9. Forgiving one another: Eph. 4:32
10. Confessing to one another: James 5:16
11. Being truthful with one another: Eph. 4:25
12. Spurring one another toward good deeds: Heb. 10:24
13. Giving to one another: Phil. 4:14,15.

At the bottom of my copy of this list I have written, “Have I placed myself so deeply within a loving, functioning local body that I myself am functioning in all these ways and so living as a well-rounded, healthy, contributing member of the Body of Christ?”

In your small group you may want to write this list of thirteen down the left side of a page, with the names of your group members across the top, and check with a date when you communicate each of these ways with each member.  In the time you have together as a group, see how many boxes you can fill!  That will be “placing yourself deeply” in your group.