Small Groups, Big Benefits

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

After receiving some intel all the way from Belfast, two thirds of the Spin team are on a mission to solve a mystery involving the third member of the team.When the kerfuffle is over, things get serious as they address the topic of the day–an article written by William Boekestein, "Ten Benefits of Church Small Groups".Although some small groups can be unhelpful and even destructive, the Crew focuses on a number of the major benefits of being part of a group with good leadership and oversight. There’s always room for growth in a small church group!Would you like to learn how you can grow in a small group setting? Follow the link and sign up for an opportunity to win a free copy of Iron Sharpens Iron: Leading Bible-Oriented Small Groups that Thrive. They are a generous gift from Christian Focus Publications.Show Notes10 Benefits of Church Small GroupsThese are the winners of Discipleship Explored Leader’s Kit from our episode Christianity Explored. If you didn’t get a free one, you can purchase at thegoodbook.com.Paul W. - Collegeville, PADoug D. - Cary, NCCedric P. - Dorr, MI

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count.
0:21.7	With Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird, Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation. Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin, a regular podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:50.2	I'm here with my regular co-host, Amy Bird and Todd Pruitt.
0:54.0	Before we get to the topic of the day, I just want to refer to a report we had recently from our good friend, Colin the book in Belfast, who's been doing some interesting research on the work of Amy Bird.
1:06.8	He ran a sort of stylometric analysis of Amy's works and those of Anvoskamp and came to the
1:14.3	startling conclusion that it's 95% likely that they're the same person based on their
1:21.6	written style. That might be coincidence, but he then did an analysis of their hair dues and came to the conclusion that he's 98% certain.
1:32.4	My hair is symmetrical.
1:34.0	Their hair is cut by the same person.
1:37.2	One of those facts in isolation might lead us to think, you know, it's a coincidence.
1:42.9	Both of them together, way beyond reason.
1:45.6	Okay.
1:46.2	You know what?
1:46.6	You must be very broken people to be having so much fun with this.
1:52.5	Some good broken people to overcome the bad broken people.
1:57.6	Collins's big question was that he knows that Amy's books have got to be stocked in the books only to be read by women's section.
2:04.6	But are they to be put under B or under V?
2:09.8	Colin, if you're out there, brother, thanks so much for doing that research for us.
2:14.5	Terrifying in its implications.
2:16.5	We will leave our listeners to do the right thing.
2:19.6	And I think it's important to know that the only person really willing to do this has to be
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