Why Sermon Based Community Groups?

A number of years ago Harvard University conducted a study for the military that uncovered three ways to maximize the benefit of any training experience. The first was maintaining a high sense of expectation. The study showed that if people went into a training experience with high expectations, they generally learned and retained a lot more.

But here's the second ingredient. The Harvard researchers also discovered that if people took good notes during the training experience, the educational impact and the life-change upon returning home would accelerate measurably.

The third key had to do with discussing the material with others. If they got together and discussed the notes—and the broader training experience as a whole—their education impact and subsequent life-change was significantly increased. .

Those last two things (taking sermon notes and getting together and discussing the impact of the Bible text) are exactly why we are having sermon-based community groups - to change lives for God's glory and our good.