{"id":4515,"date":"2018-05-14T17:03:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyonleadership.brentwoodbaptistonline.com\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2018-05-14T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:03:21","slug":"application-necessity-bible-intake-group-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadership.brentwoodbaptist.com\/adult-discipleship\/application-necessity-bible-intake-group-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Application for Themselves: The Necessity of Bible Intake by Group Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>By Paul Wilkinson<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<ul>\n<li>If only the leader is in the text daily, then only the leader is sensitive to the Spirit\u2019s quickening: seeing the Scripture in life.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, we must provide opportunity for our group members to be in the text daily.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We must give some application points to our group members; that\u2019s part of being a good teacher. Just consider the <strong>Great Commission: <em>teach them to obey<\/em><\/strong>. However, even though we can cater application to a group of 12 better than the preacher can to thousands, we still won\u2019t be able to hit the \u201cpersonal\u201d for everyone. Now, add into that the old mantra that the Sunday School teacher is the only one who grows, and you have a recipe for the <em>status quo<\/em>.<br \/>\nMy theory is that we leaders are steeped in the biblical text each week so that we see what the Spirit brings to our attention and we can respond to it in the power of the Spirit. In other words, our Bible saturation calibrates our spiritual sensitivities to the quickening of the Holy Spirit. Now imagine that you weren\u2019t the teacher and that you didn\u2019t steep yourself in the text. Instead, you show up to a group not having read anything, ready for the leader to tell you what to do. Is that disciple-making?<br \/>\n<strong>I encourage you to drive your groups into the Bible regularly, if not daily<\/strong>. I\u2019ve chosen to teach our Current Foundations Series to align with the sermons so that I can send the participant\u2019s guide to my group early in the week and they can steep themselves in the texts, discussion questions, and application points (not to mention, the <a href=\"http:\/\/brentwoodbaptist.com\/journeyon-today\/\">JourneyOn Today Daily Bible Reading<\/a> app!)<br \/>\n<strong>If you\u2019re teaching a book of the Bible, give the group something to read each day<\/strong>: some cross references, a participant\u2019s guide, etc. If you\u2019re using Past Foundation\u2019s Series, then each lesson has biblical text attached that could be worked through each day.<br \/>\nOur people will not see the Scripture in their lives if we don\u2019t challenge them to be in the text for themselves. Let\u2019s push them to engage the Word daily!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<address>Paul Wilkinson is the Adult Minister\u2013Groups Associate, Brentwood Campus, Brentwood Baptist Church.<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Paul Wilkinson \u00a0 If only the leader is in the text daily, then only the leader is sensitive to the Spirit\u2019s quickening: seeing the Scripture in life. Therefore, we must provide opportunity for our group members to be in the text daily. 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