by Jason Crandall
This year I struck out to effect our college ministry and church as a whole by putting together a series of classes on spiritual disciplines. Read Me is a class designed to help believers in Jesus study and understand their Bibles. I teach the hour and a half class in two parts. The first part is designed to help the students understand why we should study the Bible. It deals heavily with the doctrine of inspiration, inerrancy, transmission, etc. In the second part, I teach a very simple, but effective Bible Study method that involves reading and rereading texts, "translating" into their own words and then journaling an application for themselves. Talk to Me is a class designed to help Christians communicate with God. In it I do something very similar in that I want students to understand how they can easily and effectively communicate with God. I teach the A.C.T.S.S. acronym (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication and Silence). Beginning May 1st I will be teaching a basic doctrines class called: Believe Me. In this class I will teach our people basic doctrines that Christians believe. Those taking this class are required to have gone through Read Me (Now over 150 people in our church have). We set it up like this because we will be drawing our doctrines from the Bible and in Read Me we spent the first half of each class discussing the "why" of Bible Study. In the future I'll be doing short-term classes having to do with accountability, giving, etc.
These classes are all in an effort to deal with issues that our church is facing which in a word is immaturity. Read Me, Talk to Me, Believe Me, and the other classes are helping us rebuild a foundation of biblical understanding within our church. We have had great response from all kinds of groups in the church: college, high school, families, seniors, etc. Our goal is really to disciple our people in simple short-term classes. For whatever reason so many of them have not been taught simple things that Christians do and believe. We are taking those who go through these classes and putting them back in as mentors to help others going through the classes.This post is a follow up to Jason's first post titled READ ME.
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