the second post
time spent this week: 5 hours (s.s, w.s., outreach via the church)
To start out the Sunday, I sat waiting for a good portion of the already tired college students to file in. I gave a nice sarcastic head nod thinking about the few weeks before when there heads were nodding, but it wasn't out of sarcasm. I thought to myself, owww, this will be another one of those weeks.
The next couple of moments was like a slap in the face to my sarcastic smile. In fact I may have gotten slapped, I am not even sure anymore. Not only was everyone wide awake, but they were chatting about everything. Everything but the lesson that is. It seemed that my positive wishing for people to wake up back fired because now everyone was randomly talking throughout the lesson. There was this one girl, i will call chatty girl, who just loved the idea of telling these crazy stories about her car right after we got done with anything.
well to get away from my critics of the group, I would like to say that I loved how the lesson was ran this Sunday. We took the whole book of Colossians and read, by oursleves, through it, underlining interesting things as we went. Then we came back together and shared some of those things we saw. As a group we came up with chapter titles and finally the whole book title. It was really interesting to see that most people came up with pretty close to the same idea. I just imagined how the Holy Spirit was jumping around in all of our minds saying, "say this."
I just really enjoy reading straight from the Bible and taking true contextual application for it. I almost crave it like a watermelon jolly rancher. If you know what I mean.
questions for yous guys:
1. How do I say, very nicely, to a chatty type girl, you have wonderful stories, but they aren't pertinent to the discussion at hand? Should I just let her go in her creativity? or is it even an issue?
2. Can you completely use the bible and not use stories or anything else in lessons? Will the lessons start to become dry? Do you need to jazz up the bible?
To start out the Sunday, I sat waiting for a good portion of the already tired college students to file in. I gave a nice sarcastic head nod thinking about the few weeks before when there heads were nodding, but it wasn't out of sarcasm. I thought to myself, owww, this will be another one of those weeks.
The next couple of moments was like a slap in the face to my sarcastic smile. In fact I may have gotten slapped, I am not even sure anymore. Not only was everyone wide awake, but they were chatting about everything. Everything but the lesson that is. It seemed that my positive wishing for people to wake up back fired because now everyone was randomly talking throughout the lesson. There was this one girl, i will call chatty girl, who just loved the idea of telling these crazy stories about her car right after we got done with anything.
well to get away from my critics of the group, I would like to say that I loved how the lesson was ran this Sunday. We took the whole book of Colossians and read, by oursleves, through it, underlining interesting things as we went. Then we came back together and shared some of those things we saw. As a group we came up with chapter titles and finally the whole book title. It was really interesting to see that most people came up with pretty close to the same idea. I just imagined how the Holy Spirit was jumping around in all of our minds saying, "say this."
I just really enjoy reading straight from the Bible and taking true contextual application for it. I almost crave it like a watermelon jolly rancher. If you know what I mean.
questions for yous guys:
1. How do I say, very nicely, to a chatty type girl, you have wonderful stories, but they aren't pertinent to the discussion at hand? Should I just let her go in her creativity? or is it even an issue?
2. Can you completely use the bible and not use stories or anything else in lessons? Will the lessons start to become dry? Do you need to jazz up the bible?
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