The Paul Tripp Podcast 1075. Should I Go To Church, Join A Small Group, And Have A Mentor? | Ask Paul Tripp
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Apr 3, 2026 Paul Tripp explores why corporate worship shapes spiritual life and community. He highlights small groups as spaces for honest teaching and mutual correction. He discusses one-on-one mentoring as a close, corrective discipline that helps align belief and practice.
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Corporate Worship Reorients a Forgetful Heart
- Corporate worship supplies pastoral preaching and corporate singing that repeatedly reorients believers to the gospel.
- Paul Tripp describes needing a pastor who knows the congregation and hearing brothers and sisters sing truths that awaken his distracted, forgetful heart.
Join A Small Group For Personal Correction
- Join a small group so others who know you can teach and admonish you personally about recurring struggles and blind spots.
- Tripp cites Colossians 3:12–17 to show the body is meant to teach one another and correct with intimacy you won't get in large gatherings.
Sin Creates Pockets Of Spiritual Blindness
- Spiritual blindness means you often see others' sins before your own, so personal relationships are necessary for accurate self-awareness.
- Tripp notes pockets of blindness persist while sin remains, making regular, intimate community essential for change.