Gospel Revealing Groups

At Gospel Hope, we aspire to cultivate and enjoy relationships and community that exist only because of the gospel. We are not aiming to build community around similarities, but a community characterized by relationships that are obviously supernatural.

Our Practice of Community

In Gospel Revealing community, many relationships would never exist but for the truth and power of the gospel—either because of the depth of care and love for one another or because two people have little in common but Jesus.

Affinity-based relationships will certainly thrive in a church, but we want to help our members move outside their comfort zones and cultivate relationships that would not be possible apart from the supernatural work of God and his gospel. This type of community reveals the power of the gospel and makes the gospel visible (Ephesians 2–3).

1 Gospel Revealing Community Groups

The Four Purposes

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Build Gospel Relationships
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Provide Gospel Care
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Participate in God’s Mission
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Grow as Disciples

2 Spiritually intentional Gospel Revealing Relationships

One of the best to ways get involved and participate in building a culture of doing life together here at Gospel Hope is to make spiritually intentional relationships the norm.

This means continually getting together to study the scriptures, gospel one another, confess sin, love one another, share meals together, have fun together, create and enjoy memories together, recreate, and even take vacations together, all while being intentional about talking about spiritual things, pray the Scriptures over one another, confront and encourage one another with the scriptures and read good books together that help us understand and live out the Scriptures better.

And we want all of this to happen naturally without needing a program or ministry to sign up for.

3 Spiritually Intentional Gospel Revealing Hospitality

One of the best to ways get involved and participate in building a culture of doing life together here at Gospel Hope is to make “practicing hospitality” the norm (Romans 12:13).

Our culture defines hospitality very narrowly: “invite people over for dinner.” But the New Testament use of the word is much broader. The original word, xenophile, literally means “lover of strangers.”

Inviting people out for a meal, walking up to a stranger at church to say hello, having people over for the big game or a game night, and attending the wedding of a church member you don’t know — all these are hospitality. When we grow in hospitality, we grow in inviting others into their lives. And we grow in reaching out to those with whom we don’t share much natural affinity.

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