Faith Baptist Church
Discipleship vs. Bible Study
- We already have an adult Bible study- 9:30 am. Why do we need another adult Bible study?We don’t call this a Bible study we call it a discipleship class- what is the difference?How should we make this study different from SS?What does a learning space look like?Deep Discipleship- J.T. English“The best learning spaces in the local church will be both transformational and active.”“We are not merely aiming at the mind but the whole person.”“The goal is not simply to create smarter Christians but holy people.”Active Learning SpacesWhat is a passive learning space? being merely an audience.What does an active learning space look like?1. Participants should be working on something before class“This work should help students realize they need to grow.”“Too often Bible studies and curricula create a sense of satisfaction, not a sense of dissonance.”You do not want the work to be so far over learners’ heads that they are discouraged, but you want them to ahve a hunger for learning more.2. Before the teaching time, participants should gather together into smaller groups and discuss pre-class work.You are becoming a community of co-learners on a journey toward truth.You will grow in an awareness of what of what you do not know.3. Participants should then come to a large-group teaching environment.Not a sermon, but dialogical. Difference?4. Participants need to articulate what they have learned to someone else.This last step is essential for deep learning to happen.End of the week question- “What did you learn, and to whom are you teaching it?”“No one learns as much about a subject as the man who is forced to teach it, no one develops as much as the man who is trying to help others to develop themselves. Indeed, no one can develop himself unless he works on the development of others.” —Peter DruckerThis is why this study will be a discipleship class, not merely a bible study.All disciples make disciples!Active learning environments call every participant to, in some sense, be a teacher.The goal in active learning environments is not great teaching but deep learning.Pre-class assignment: The Walk: pp. 29-34Come prepared to discuss what you learned with a small group.Be thinking about who you will teach what you learned.Questions?
