Phase One Tools

BUILD YOUR STORY The Story Tool is meant to create honesty, vulnerability, and transparency to your group as you tell your story.

BUILDING AND SHARING YOUR STORY
Sharing our stories with one another in our group creates “relational equity” with the members of our group. We each get to know one another in a more intimate and trustworthy way.

THE SEVEN ARROWS These are seven simple questions that relate to 7 Arrows of varying directions to help remember and guide you through God’s Word.

THE SEVEN ARROWS
This abiding tool is seven simple questions we ask of the Biblical text to help group members remember and guide them through God’s Word. Seven directional arrows assist us to remember what the seven questions are that we need to ask.

EAT THE WORD Eating the Word is a simple set of filters that we use to dig deeper into God's Word. These filters then allow us to make multiple observations about a single scripture.

EAT THE WORD
This abiding tool is a simple set of filters that we use to dig deeper into God's Word. This type of inductive Bible study allow us to make multiple observations about a single scripture or set of scriptures.

READ SCRIPTURE APP The Read Scripture App is a resource at our finger tips thanks to those at the Bible Project. This app that you can download walks you creatively through the entire bible.

SCRIPTURE READING PLANS
The Scripture Reading plans are a great resource to get your group abiding together on the same plan. Use one of the suggested plans or apps to create a healthy rhythm of spending time in God’s Word.

The D3 Pathway

The D3 Pathway

 
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BENCHMARK: ABIDE

Your group has spent the past several weeks getting to know each other well. While do so, the hope is that you begin to have conversations of spending regular time in God’s Word. The benchmark of ABIDING allows you to see how faithful your group is being with this practice before stepping into Phase 2: Transformation.