Why Small Groups?/The Art of Care and Correction

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Chapter Five: The Art of Care and Correction

M I C K E Y C O N N O L L Y

As we read in Chapter One of this book, a primary goal of small-group ministry is sanctification. God has called us each to be conformed to the image of Christ. In God’s wisdom, he has made us so that we cannot accomplish this without the involvement of others. Wayne
Grudem has said, “Sanctification is usually a corporate process in the New Testament. It is something that happens in community.” ^[1]  Another has well said, “One can acquire anything in solitude except character.”

Notes

<1. Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan
Publishing House, 1994), p. 756.
2. Jay Adams, Solving Marriage Problems, (Grand Rapids, MI:
Zondervan Publishing House, 1983), p. 99.
3. Ken Sande, The Peacemaker (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House,
1991), p. 20.
4. Wayne Mack, Your Family, God’s Way (Phillipsburg, NJ:
Presbyterian
and Reformed Publishing Co., 1991), p. 170.
5. Terry Virgo, Restoration in the Church (Columbia, MO: Cityhill
Publishing, 1989), p. 72.
6. E. Bradley Beevers, “Watch Your Language,” The Journal of Biblical
Counseling, Vol. XII, No. 3, Spring 1994, p. 25.
7. Ken Sande, The Peacemaker, p. 97.
8. Ibid., p. 164. />