This weekend marks a special day for Vineyard Columbus as we launch the new sermon-based small groups! So this coming Friday, 10/9, I will be writing the first official sermon-based study guide. Here are a few questions that I've been asked a few times already, so I thought I would answer them here:
HOW DO I GET THE STUDY GUIDES?
About a month ago we did a pilot run of the sermon-based studies to get some initial feedbacks from the leaders. Based on these feedbacks here is how you will be getting the study guides.
1. The main way that you will be getting your study guides is through our new website that we created for the sermon-based small groups. New study guides will be posted on this website every Friday at 5pm. Please bookmark this page.
2. For the first three weeks, we will also be emailing the study guides to the small group leaders. Since not everyone will be familiar with the new site, we wanted to take some proactive steps to help get us off the ground. After these three weeks, you will no longer get the study guides via email, but you will get a reminder email asking you to come to this site to download the study guides. This automatic email list is still being created, so you should be getting detailed instructions on to sign up for this either from me or John McNeal in the next two weeks.
3. For those of you who are familiar with RSS (Really Simple Syndication), you can sign up to get RSS feeds on our new website (on the right side labeled "Subscribe") so that every time there is new content posted on the website, you will see the post on your RSS reader. For more information regarding RSS, check out this website: http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour.html
CAN I CHANGE THE STUDY GUIDE FOR MY GROUP?
This study guide exists to help you teach and facilitate discussion in your group. It is not meant to constrict you. Since this study guide is a tool and not a rule, we hope that you will feel free to adapt it to fit your group. You may want to skip some questions and you may even want to add your own questions and illustrations. However, the main thrust of the study should always be the major topics that were covered in the sermon.
CAN I GIVE SOME FEEDBACK?
We really want to hear feedbacks from you, especially in the first few weeks so we can keep learning how to do this together. So as you begin your group, we would love to receive some constructive feedbacks regarding what worked and what didn’t. (Did you like the wording? Were there too many or too few questions? Did it go deep enough? What would you like to see changed? etc.) Please be brutally honest. We really want these new sermon-based small groups to thrive! So, we welcome your feedback and the feedback from those in your small groups. Use the "Feedback" section on the right side of the website to submit your feedback.
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