Hi, all!
Our church has been adding home Bible studies to our uploaded sermons on Faithlife. As we do this, we need a way to differentiate these sermons from our main Sunday services. We can't use "Sermon Series" for this, as we use "Sermon Series" to refer to the book of the Bible that the sermon is taught from.
My solution for the moment is to add tags to these home Bible study sermons, so I can tell everyone they can narrow their search that way. It looks to me like this is the best way to go, but was hoping there'd be something that wouldn't require everyone to memorize the tags they need to search.
Maybe Faithlife could add a "Service Type" field at some point, or something similar? Or is this really something I should be using "Sermon Series" for, and that's that?
- Jordan Sjodin so we would use that to indicate the series (e.g. Matthew), and use "sermon series" to indicate whether it's a Sunday sermon, home Bible study, etc? That would work nicely for us; I'd just have to go through all our existing sermons and change the way they're categorized. Definitely doable!
- Hmm no sermon series and series are the same. So you would just have one flat list of series… containing your Books of the Bible ones and a single one for bible studies. Then name the Bible studies such that they are differentiable
- Jordan Sjodin ah, I thought you were asking if adding a new field called "Bible study series" would help... and it would for sure. What you just suggested is another way to kind of get it done. We just lose the ability to designate a "Bible study" sermon as being part of one of our book of the Bible series. This may be OK; I'll see what our pastor thinks. That said, you mentioned that adding "Bible study" to the types that currently include "Sermon" and "Illustration" sounded interesting... I would agree!