Tonight I relaunch a bible study that we tried last year with very lackluster results. Last year we launched a High School bible study called Pulse that met on Sunday nights. It was just me, a bible and some students. The problem is that Sundays just don’t work for our church. No matter what the program, meeting or system…if we meet on Sunday nights it will fail. That is simply our culture. But I have done more than change nights, I have changed the very spirit of the study. For one thing, it is a closed study (invitation only). This is a small group of 8-12 students that will be poured into for a specific time. 10 weeks. After this is done I will plug them into one of our other small group studies or if they showed the stuff they will begin their own. I will take a week or 2 off and then pick 8-12 more students and start all over.
We will be studying scripture using the Lectio Divinia. I will also use the time to teach some theology and big picture stuff. It will be very much going back to my small youth ministry roots. I am very excited about what can happen in this study.
Sometimes if something is not working you have to kill it and revamp it so that excellence can prevail.
Sean Rheaume 