University Church of Christ Acts 2 Group Leaders

What We Can Learn from the Happy Baby!!!

Every time I change my youngest son’s diaper, he grabs his feet and pulls them to his head.  He makes it look so easy.  But have you ever tried to do that?

No seriously, try it?  

If you ever try Yoga, you’ll probably do this move.  Except you’ll come nowhere close to demonstrating the flexibility that a little baby does. 

So what does this have to do with our Acts 2 Groups?

Several of our groups have grown out of the infant stage and have matured over time.  Unfortunately, some of those groups have also lost the flexibility that they had in their infant stage.

As our groups mature, we tend to stick to the things that make us comfortable, the things we’ve always done in the past.  Prayer  times are skipped in order to spend a little more “fellowship” time together.  We’ll skip a meeting because we’re all sooooo busy.  We’ll stop trying to reach out to others in our community because of a few unsuccessful attempts.

Here’s my challenge to our groups, especially our group leaders.  If your group has “hit a wall”, start over.  For some of you, it may be as serious as disbanding and forming two separate groups.  For others, you may need to sit down and discuss the structure of your entire group and see what needs to be changed.    Whatever you decide to do, bathe it in prayer first and let God determine your course.

For some reason, when a group starts to mature, they often tend to get comfortable with what got them to that point.  Unfortunately (or rather fortunately from a spiritual perspective) the members of the group have changed their personalities.  Yet, as a group, we like to follow the same format that took us from infancy to maturity.

The funny thing about flexibility, is you don’t realize you are losing it until it is gone.   If I sit down to try the “Happy Baby” stretch, I’ll never get my legs as far and as comfortable as my son.  Yet somehow, I missed the day where that flexibility just went away.

However, you can get that flexibility back.  If I perform that stretch every day, I’ll become more flexiblle over time.

So let’s start “stretching” today.  And if you pull a hamstring in the process of reading this, I know a good physical therapist that can help you out.