pat loughery

If you don’t follow Jordon Cooper’s blog, well, you should.

Today he does a great review of The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups by Joseph R. Myers. Frankly, the book – and the review – are disturbing. And I may not mean that in a bad way.

I’m a huge advocate for small groups. In lookinng over my life, I’ve always grown the most when I was in a small group. I grew as a leader most when I began to lead a small group, then oversee small group leaders. But they’re notoriously hard to get off the ground, and harder to multiply. Affinity groups (the group of guys who rides motorcycles for breakfast every month, etc) are easier, but they tend not to be as deep.

Myers’ book appears to really focus on the issue of Belonging. What does it – and what doesn’t it – mean to belong? How does it happen, and not “how do we make it happen”?

Go read Jordon’s review. His blog doesn’t have permalinks, so you’ll have to just go there and scroll down a ways until you see the book cover.