Courtney Lien

One thing that I can learn from Courtney is her patience in waiting for God to provide her with a position in ministry that she had a passion for. She gave up trying so to speak and trusted in God to lead her and possibly open up a position for her. It can be hard to be patient sometimes waiting for a position that you are passionate about sometimes. But it showed her humbleness in doing the job that she had been doing in administration. It shows that being patient and serving in the little things that God will honor you in that. In their approach to outreaches and discipleship I like their approach of getting away from the big, huge events of attracting people. That I think sometimes can be a waste of time, money and energy sometimes. But they have realized that they need to focus on people and discipling them. The idea of getting away from outreaches scares me a little, if they are not focusing on the community or the youth of the area. I think that it is very important for small groups to be a part of churches. But maybe they are putting too much emphasis on small groups. I think small groups are important, but they are just a part of outreaches and ways to disciple and outreach people. But I think sometimes small groups have too much emphasis put on them, there seems to be a lot of interests in small groups in the church today. But with all the emphasis on small groups they forget the other aspects of relationships between people. Small groups focus on intimate space, but forget the areas of public, social and personal space. People connect healthily through all four space public, social, personal and intimate. I think some churches focus so much on the two extremes of public spaces and intimate spaces in small groups. When there doesn’t always need to be so much focus on just one of the spaces at a time. With all the small groups, the church or youth group can be divided sometimes and are not unified.