Mobile LifeGroup Moments with Marcus

This week's episode is about asking questions of the Bible - and learning to be okay with not always having the answers. Questions in these moments become our tools with which we worship, and silence - the silence of a group - the silence of answers - becomes the way our worship feels and looks.

Episode four of Mobile LifeGroup Moments with Marcus features a first for the podcast -- our very first guest interview! I've invited my friend and excellent group facilitator Burton Miller, who's an intern at Immanuel Baptist Church in Ipswich. This week's episode explores what it's like to healthily facilitate discussion. How can we prepare as a leader? What should a discussion "feel" like? What should a night look like when studying from a passage or sermon manuscript text if we are facilitators and not teachers?

Episode three of Mobile LifeGroup Moments with Marcus is here! This week's episode explores time. More specifically, we’re going to take a look at how time plays a role in our groups and how we can embrace it as group facilitators. What kind of time do we want our group to feel? What do we hope that our regular meetings feel like? What about the kind of long-term time? Where do we see our groups - where do we hope our groups will be - three months from now? Six months from now? The way time progresses is something we should be aware of as leaders - or, as last week’s episode talked about, these are things that we should be aware of as guardians. If we, as the LifeGroup leader, are called to be guardians who protect and defend a space that allows transformation to occur - what does it look like to look at the way we handle time now for our groups?

Episode two of Mobile LifeGroup Moments with Marcus has officially dropped! This week's episode explores group safety. In the context of small groups, safety is what it is that allows people to feel so secure in the group relationships that they don’t have to hide who they are. There's also a brand new theme song at the beginning of the episode written by our very own Brian James, so get pumped. As always, I would love your feedback and welcome all dialogue - especially with such a huge topic.

Welcome to the official launch of this semester's Mobile LifeGroup Moments with Marcus! The first episode is a short introduction to the show itself, and exploring the question - is there a biblical basis for small groups? The length is a little under 9 minutes. I would love your feedback as you listen to it!