{"id":1478,"date":"2021-12-10T20:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2022-02-19T11:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T17:03:46","slug":"small-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/church-community\/small-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\/\/ INFORMATION COPIED FROM THEIR WEBSITE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Smallcircle is one-to-one relational discipleship program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From their website:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">LIFE CHANGES AT A TABLE FOR TWO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Deeper levels of relationships can be found beyond the group experience. Smallcircle captures the life-changing power of one-to-one relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Predicament<br><\/strong>There are three very clear challenges that we face in the church culture. We are faced with a relational predicament, a transformation predicament, and a consumerism predicament.<br><br><\/li><li><strong>The Solution<br><\/strong>Even though we face steep challenges, there is a solution that tackles the predicaments we face: one-to-one relationships. &#8220;My growing conviction is that all substantial change depends on people experiencing a certain kind of relationship.&#8221; (Larry Crabb, Becoming a True Spiritual Community)<br><br><\/li><li><strong>The Strategy<br><\/strong>To reach extraordinary Kingdom results, there must be a strategy. &#8220;My studies of thousands of churches across the country have convinced me that discipleship does not happen simply because a church exists. It occurs when there is an intentional and strategic thrust to facilitate spiritual maturity.&#8221; (George Barna, Growing True Disciples)<br><br><\/li><li><strong>The Tools<br><\/strong>Learn about the tools of Xchange. A more detailed explanation with visual support is found in the Getting Started film in the training section.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-normal-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"http:\/\/smallcircle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visit SmallCircle.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deeper levels of relationships can be found beyond the group experience. Smallcircle captures the life-changing power of one-to-one relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-community","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}