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Connect Grow Serve Go - Adult Spiritual Health

Written by LifeWay.com Staff

Sunday School: Grow, Connect, Serve, and Go
Creating a balanced and healthy class
A series of four lessons to help your church understand how LifeWay's Adult Ministry Strategy relates to your Sunday School. Helping you strengthen your process of making disciples through your Sunday School and Small groups.
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	Looking for quick information on Connect, Grow, Serve, Go? Free Webcourses - hosted by Acrobat.com View the LifeSpan Spiritual Development Webcourse View the Connect-Grow-Serve-Go Webcourse Downloads Download a 1-page handout version of this page in PDF form Download a PowerPoint presentation that explains how Connect Grow Serve Go fits into LifeWay's LifeSpan Spiritual Development plan. Adult Ministry products in our online catalog are now categorized by these four areas of spiritual growth. Click any of the individual icons below to see available resources.
	What is Connect, Grow, Serve, Go? We talk a lot about the importance of staying physically fit, caring for the condition of our hearts and keeping our minds sharp. But what about the health of our spirits? Connect, Grow, Serve, Go is a call to evaluate your present condition and discover ways to improve your spiritual health. Packed into each biblical concept - Connect, Grow, Serve, Go - is a simple way you can move forward, not remain stagnant. Best of all, these tools will stand the test of time; no "fad" diets here. Spiritual growth occurs incrementally and concurrently as adults interact with the 15 biblical concepts that impact their personal experiences and practical life situations. Learning should integrate connecting, growing, serving and going in balanced spiritual development. For more information, read about each of the 15 biblical concepts for adult spiritual development.
	Connect highlights the importance of worship, prayer, and fellowship in your everyday life. It reminds you that building positive, long-lasting relationships with people at work, school, the PTA, and even in your home is vastly important. As you connect with God, He connects you with individuals who you in turn connect to your church family.
	Grow "in spirit and in truth." Knowing God's Word and how it makes a difference in the day-to-day is key to a balanced life. Growing in knowledge is vital, but it's about more than just information. It's about truly becoming a disciple and seeing God's Word come alive in your life. It's about discovering something fresh and inspiring in a passage you've read a hundred times.
	Serve alongside fellow followers of Christ - it feeds your soul. Your church is full of ministry and service opportunities. Maybe your service is manning the food pantry, hosting youth fellowships, or teaching Sunday School. It takes all of us working together for the church to function as God intended. He empowers us to serve, and multiplies our efforts in exponential ways.
	Go moves you outside of the church walls into every part of your community and the world. Whether you're driving a hammer on a Habitat build, offering a clean cup of water, or tutoring children at the local Y, do it all in the name of Christ. It might be uncomfortable at first, but you will experience first-hand the impact Christ can make through you.
	Connect, Grow, Serve, Go must impact you, the individual, before it can permeate your circle of friends, your Bible study group, and then the church as a whole. All Go and no Connect with God or other believers leaves you worn out. A steady diet of Grow without the action of Serve or Go leads to unhealthy spiritual indifference. We all need a balanced spiritual diet to remain fit and able to serve God in the ways He has gifted us. Look for these Connect, Grow, Serve, Go icons in this and other Adult Ministry resources from LifeWay to help you check and maintain your spiritual balance and health.