Please click below to download the study guide which accompanies the sermon preached on February 28. The study guides are beneficial for personal use but primarily designed for use within our Community Groups.

ACCESS - Week 2

To learn more about our Community Groups please visit: westportchurch.org/information/groups

Please click below to download the study guide which accompanies the sermon preached on February 21. The study guides are beneficial for personal use but primarily designed for use within our Community Groups.

ACCESS - Week 1

To learn more about our Community Groups please visit: westportchurch.org/information/groups

Please click below to download the study guide which accompanies the sermon preached on January 24th. The study guides are beneficial for personal use but primarily designed for use within our Community Groups.

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To learn more about our Community Groups please visit: westportchurch.org/information/groups

Please click below to download the study guide which accompanies the sermon preached on January 17th. The study guides are beneficial for personal use but primarily designed for use within our Community Groups.

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To learn more about our Community Groups please visit: westportchurch.org/information/groups

Please click below to download the study guide which accompanies the sermon preached on January 10th. The study guides are beneficial for personal use but primarily designed for use within our Community Groups.

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To learn more about our Community Groups please visit: westportchurch.org/information/groups

There are many reasons why we value Community Groups at Westport.  I came across this list recently from a pastor in Minneapolis (John Piper).  I thought it was helpful to pass along…enjoy!

1. The impulse to avoid painful growth by disappearing safely into the crowd in corporate worship is very strong.
2. The tendency toward passivity in listening to a sermon is part of our human weakness.
3. Listeners in a big group can more easily evade redemptive crises. If tears well up in your eyes in a community group, wise friends will gently find out why. But in a large gathering, you can just walk away from it.
4. Listeners in a large group tend to neglect efforts of personal application. The sermon may touch a nerve of conviction, but without someone to press in, it can easily be avoided.
5. Opportunity for questions leading to growth is missing. Sermons are not dialogue. Nor should they be. But asking questions is a key to understanding and growth. Community Groups are great occasions for this.
6. Accountability for follow-through on good resolves is missing. But if someone knows what you intended to do, the resolve is stronger.
7. Prayer support for a specific need or conviction or resolve goes wanting. O how many blessings we do not have because we are not surrounded by a band of friends who pray for us.