who do you listen to?

On a scale of 1-10, this week has been fabulous.  I’ve had the pleasure of so many good conversations about the Kingdom of God, spiritual growth, following Jesus, hunger for God…I feel like my cup is running over tonight.  We had more than 20 people show up for our life group, which was back at the Sublett hacienda for the first time since Annabelle came to join us.  We wrapped up our discussion of Francis Chan’s Forgotten God with a good discussion around the questions:

Am I desperate for the Holy Spirit, for the move of God in my life?

Is my life explainable without the presence of God’s Spirit?

So much good stuff!  I love leading these discussions, and the people that have joined the conversation along the way.

One of the great chats that I had this week was about the differences between a life group of peers vs an inter-generational life group.  While there is certainly value in a peer-group getting together to discuss the Word of God, there’s a great need for the older generation to lead the younger.  The idea that stood out to me in that conversation was something along this line:

When everybody’s opinion about a passage of Scripture is of equal value and weight, who do I listen to?  I want to be taught, to be challenged, to learn how to follow Jesus from someone who knows better than I…

I read a great article about the value and growing trend of multi-generational small groups today.  You can read it here.

So what do you think?  Who has the authority to speak into your life?  Are you part of a small group, and what kind of small group is it?

I’m working on a post about what I see in the younger generation of leaders, and the value of mentoring.  If you have a good story about mentoring, why don’t you shoot it my way.