Welcome to Season 2 of the Your Church Matters podcast. In this episode (75), I am sharing a reading of Chapter 4 of my brand new book, Why “Bible Study” Doesn’t Work: The epic failure of evangelicalism’s favorite discipleship method — and how YOUR CHURCH can do something about it.
If you have not listened to the previous chapters, you may want to do that before listening to this one.
Introduction – Why “Bible Study” Doesn’t Work
Chapter One – Why should we study the Bible?
Chapter Two – A blueprint for a Jesus-focused church
Chapter Three – What’s missing in our Bible studies?
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Chapter Overview – 10 commandments for transforming “Bible study” into powerfully effective Disciple Making
- Thou shalt not bore thy class (Be engaging).
- Thou shalt celebrate authenticity (Be real).
- Thou shalt prepare with intentionality (Be prepared).
- Thou shalt redeem the time (Be timely).
- Thou shalt engage THE STORY (Be focused).
- Thou shalt embrace the mission of the church (Be on mission).
- Thou shalt encourage the Body (Be connected).
- Thou shalt empower disciples (Be purposeful).
- Thou shalt unleash ministers (Be catalytic).
- Thou shalt journey with joy (Be joyful).
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- Book information
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- My Amazon author page (lists all my books available from Amazon)
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Updated July 13, 2016 at 10:15 a.m. Central Standard Time. 26th consecutive day on Best Seller lists and Hot New Releases.
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