Last night I had one of the best nights of small group ever. It wasn’t the lesson. It wasn’t the topic. It wasn’t even the snack before we got started. It’s the conversation I had after the organized lesson was over.
The conversation I had last night reminded me of something. Even though we can plan to have a great lesson that we think our students need to hear, we put in a ton of effort to prepare it and get great discussion questions ready and then we execute it PERFECTLY, nothing beats one-on-one relational ministry. The topic we spent an hour talking about last night was good, but the fifteen-minute conversation I had with one student made the night great. We took a huge leap forward in that one student’s life.
This post is two things: 1) A huge praise to the God that made everything happen and gave me the words when talking to that student last night and 2) a reminder to all leaders: Do not get so caught up in your plans that you miss the opportunity for the unplanned. That is when great ministry happens.
