G4 Groups

Support and recovery groups

What are G4 Groups?

G4 groups provide a small group atmosphere where individuals invest a season of their life to overcome a particular life-dominating struggle of sin or suffering. These groups provide a safe environment where members learn insights and skills that allow them to more fully engage in biblical community.

G4 Group Topics

The topics listed are the ones we currently offer.

Anxiety/Depression

Codependency

Divorce Care

GriefShare

Marriage Betrayal
(Women Only)

Men’s Purity

Postpartum
(Women Only)

Substance Abuse

Women’s Purity

Women’s Trauma

Why do we call them G4 groups?

G is for gospel-centered groups. Rather than making an issue, struggle, or sin the centerpiece of our groups, we strive to make the gospel of Christ the core of all our groups. Our identity is not found in an issue but in an individual — the person of Christ.

4 designates the four types of groups offered:

  • Recovery: Groups for those struggling with a life-dominating sin, addiction, or traumatic life event.
  • Support: Groups for those needing encouragement and support during a period of suffering or hardship.
  • Therapeutic educational: Groups for those needing information and/or resources about a specific life issue.
  • Process: Groups for those needing help processing problematic emotions or multiple life stressors.

Core Values

  • Bible-based and gospel-centered.
  • Recognize the difference between sin and suffering.
  • Built on honesty and transparency.
  • Uphold confidentiality.
  • Avoid struggle-based identity.
  • Blend discipleship, accountability, and a guided process.
  • Transitions into larger small group ministry.

Nine Steps of a G4 Group

Struggling with a life-dominating sin:
  1. Admit I have a struggle I cannot overcome without God.
  2. Acknowledge the breadth and impact of my sin.
  3. Understand the origin, motive, and history of my sin.
  4. Repent to God for how my sin replaced and misrepresented him.
  5. Confess to those affected for harm done, and seek to make amends.
  6. Restructure my life to rely on God’s grace and his Word to transform my life.
  7. Implement the new structure with humility and flexibility.
  8. Persevere in the new life and identity to which God has called me.
  9. Steward all of my life for God’s glory.
Struggling through a period of life-altering suffering:
  1. Prepare myself physically, emotionally, and spiritually to face my suffering.
  2. Acknowledge the specific history and realness of my suffering.
  3. Understand the impact of my suffering.
  4. Learn my suffering story, which I used to make sense of my experience.
  5. Mourn the wrongness of what happened, and receive God’s comfort.
  6. Learn my gospel story by which God gives meaning to my experience.
  7. Identify goals that allow me to combat the impact of my suffering.
  8. Persevere in the new life and identity to which God has called me.
  9. Steward all of my life for God’s glory.