engage ONE ANOTHER (faith nurturing groups)

People who join churches want a real relationship with God.  They want a real relationship with loving people.  Many new Christians discover that they wanted a relationship with God and loving people even before they knew they wanted it.  One new Christian told me, "The church helped me see that I was built for God.  I didn't know that, because I didn't know much about God and I was so busy being busy.  But [my friends in the church] helped me see what I've been looking for off and on since I was a kid.  Now I've turned my life over to Christ, I feel like my life makes sense for the first time in 20 years."  ...Whether children or adults, most us first learn about God's love through other people.

From Unbinding the Gospel, by Martha Grace Reese (p. 76)