Comments on: I would never belong to a group that would accept someone like me as a member.

By: Vertigo » Relativism

Vertigo » Relativism — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:46:23 +0000

[...] give me the definition of relativism?” I have a point, really. Yesterday I read a post on Brandi’s blog about her experience with a new community group and how they mixed young college kids with [...]

By: Kara

Kara — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:58:18 +0000

Brandi–

I’ve been a part of several different small groups or home groups or care groups, whatever you choose to call them. I’ve definately noticed that college age or just out of college age generally want more of a social group than a “dig deeper” group. But as a 27 year old single, I’ve been in groups with married couples and singles, and they’ve been great. It’s NOT great being the only single, but if there’s more than 1 or 2, I think it works fine.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:31:17 +0000

Brandi: I’m neither Scott nor Susan, but I’d jump at that chance. That’s essentially my group of friends age-shifted down a few years. [We trend late 20s to mid 30s now. The spread's eight years.]

By: scott

scott — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:16:51 +0000

and also, by discussion, probably half the time it starts with scripture, but not always. it used to be scripture every week and then talk about it, then we just kind of started meeting on thursdays to hang out, so now the scripture stuff doesn’t happen EVERY week, but a pretty good amount.

By: scott

scott — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:15:18 +0000

i’d be fine with that type of group. the guys group i’m in that is so awesome, all we do is discussion. it’s not always on church type stuff, sometimes it’s about bands or movies or kids. i just like getting together on a regular basis to talk to people.

By: slynnro

slynnro — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:42:36 +0000

Ditto what Susan said. I’m not involved in a church, but this is a complaint I’ve heard from friends.

By: brandi

brandi — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:28:42 +0000

Hey Scott and Susan, question for you. Would you be opposed to being part of a group that was people your age but was a lot of couples, too? Like five couples and 3-4 singles, all in mid to late 20s? That’s the question we have right now, where to put the people who want more of a discussion type atmosphere. There’s not really enough of them to do another group, but I don’t want them to be uncomfortable with us. We’re not doing marriage studies or anything like that. I don’t know what to do.

By: Jonathan Blundell

Jonathan Blundell — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:37:00 +0000

thanks for sharing. we’ve tried to combine all ages with our community groups but we’ve had limited success getting college age or younger to attend our groups unless they come with their parents. we have had some luck getting singles/college grads involved but not to an overwhelming success. we’ll just see how it goes – and yes – it does feel great to be surrounded by people of like mind and stage in life. our lives would be quite dull without the relationships we’ve made through our community group.

By: scott

scott — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:10:23 +0000

what susan said.

it’d be cool to go to y’all’s group.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:29:29 +0000

I can totally understand the college group not loving being tossed in with post-college married couples. And I also think that young, married couples without kids tend to be TOTALLY overlooked in churches, so hooray for you guys providing a place for them!!