not leave much time or energy for actual face-to-face connection. People

have hundreds of friends or followers online, but spend most of their

time interacting with people by typing words into their phone. Of

course, we all feel how unhealthy and harmful this can be. But many of

us don’t see any other way to live. As a church, we’re pushing against

the flow towards isolation with a plan to get everyone into a small

group. But this is not a project for ‘church leadership’’; it is a

project for the church. Today, we’ll take some time to study the

foundations and patterns handed down to us from the first century church

through Luke and Paul. And we’ll try to apply what we learn to the

invitation Hope is giving to each Hoper to ‘group up’!