No. 2 Learning from Failure

Facilitator______________
Date___________________

Group Session Plan from TOCWSGM** - Rev. Glenn H. Turner

Chalice/Candle Lighting

Opening Words:

"We gather to affirm the potential we all share:
for building community, for undertaking constructive change,
for engaging in mature growth,
for achieving greater humanity than we have known.
May our meeting together be a time of reflection on possibilities untried.
May it help us on our perilous ways during the week ahead."
Adapted from Harold Babcock

Check-in/Sharing

Topic:
"Whether or not we soften the sense of "sinners" to what Eugene Kennedy calls "mistake makers," the fact remains we are not and never can be perfect. This is not to say we are condemned to making the same mistakes over and over. If we learn from past mistakes, we shall have the joy and sorrow of making some entirely new ones and learning from them as well. That is learning. That is growth. That is what being alive is all about." Glenn Turner

Possible Questions: What have we learned from our mistakes or our failures?
How do we make imperfection a wise teacher?

Select the topic and location for the next meeting

Check-out / Likes and Wishes

Closing Words:

"We receive fragments of holiness, glimpses of eternity, brief moments of insight. Let us gather them up for the precious gifts that they are, and, renewed by their grace, move boldly into the unknown."
Sara Campbell

** Transforming Our Churches With Small Group Ministry, Revised - February 2000