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For many of us, this singular question is why we're not connected in some sort of small group:What about That Guy?
You know, the one who gets under your skin? The one who every time they open their mouth, it's like a cat scratching across your brain? The person who you figure out what car they drive and show up late so if it's already parked you keep on driving and text in some excuse or call in sick or something?You know. THAT Guy.
Believe me, I've been in enough groups with him (and her). It's loathsome. All kinds of reasons we don't get along. Maybe it's their personality. Or maybe they have wildly different political or religious views. Maybe you come from different sides of the tracks. Maybe there's no good reason, you just rub each other the wrong way.Whatever it is, it's enough to kill a lot of small groups. So what do you do if you're in a group with That Guy?
Because the reality is, if you really take the Scriptures' call to do Church from the ground up, to connect at this basic level, then eventually (probably sooner rather than later) you're going to be in a group with That Guy.And since you can never control what anyone else does, since you can only be responsible for yourself and for your own actions and responses, today we're going to talk about how to thrive in a group with That Guy. Not how to avoid him. Or how to gracefully skip out. But how to embrace him.
Because believe it or not, you need That Guy. You NEED him to thrive.
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