Discipleship group - Charting Directions

For discipleship group meeting yesterday, we were discussing about the direction we should take for discipleship group. For the past year, we had been going through chronologically in the bible, from Genesis to Exodus. We were introduced to a method of textual study of the bible created by my Discipleship group leader, Hobart.

To give an overview of the method, we were encouraged to look closely at the passage in the bible and find patterns in the way the passages is written and elucidate finer points of the bible by inferring or hypothesizing the significance of these patterns.

Not all discipleship group members found this form of bible study palatable though. One of the discipleship group member, Shaun, wanted a discipleship group study that would focus on the aspect of Christian living. He says he wants something practical that would be helpful on how we can be better Christians in life.

Michael proposed that we have weekly thematic studies on specific concepts of Christian living, such as on Love or Faith. We can delegate the task of researching to the members tasked to lead bible discussion studies on that topic.

I thought that a run-through through the epistles would help bring out the aspects of Christian living. I thought the in-depth sermons on the book of Colossians by Rev Paul Wood at the Varsity Christian Fellowship Anntic Camp last December was great in helping Christians to reflect on living out as Christians.

Some of the members of the group seemed quite keen when I suggested that we each keep personal blogs that we write in and update regularly about our lives, and to make it a habit to check up on one another's blogs and write comments or provide links to informative articles so as to foster accountability within the discipleship group. I thought that it would be good for individual members to keep blogs so as to express themselves through writing, and to learn to understand one another and be understood. It would also provide a good platform for exchange for thoughts and ideas.This would help provide an avenue for Christian fellowship outside the limited discipleship group time that we have.

Reader, I would certainly appreciate any ideas you may have on how I can make discipleship group more fruitful and vibrant.