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Growing churches have developed a system of small groups where individual believers can find intimate community, practical help, and intense spiritual interaction. In these groups, people not only discuss biblical texts and listen to their leader's interesting explanations, but they apply biblical insights to the questions the participants have about everyday life issues...

The secret of holistic small groups is (a) to nurture the heads, the hands, and the hearts of the participants, and (b) to bring these three dimensions into balance...

Excerpts from Color Your World with Natural Church Development - Christian A. Schwarz

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