Q1 Teaching Map

We’re in the process of updating the Leadership Manual to include a section on the content of the teaching, called the Teaching Map.  So over the next couple of weeks I’m going to be posting the teaching summaries of each workbooks to give you an idea of what the teaching sections look like.

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Y1 | Q1 – Come Follow Me: An Orientation To The Journey

1.01 – Missio Dei: This week begins an overview of where the group is doing over the next three years.  It’s called Missio Dei and it means engaging God’s mission of restoration. This week also discusses the gift of participation and why we should participate.

1.02 – Communitas: This week explores the concept of Communitas as a context for the group meetings.  Communitas is a deeper form of authentic community and sets the table for effective mission.

1.03 – Good News: This week we begin to look at the grand narrative in Scripture.  What is the big picture look like and what is God trying to accomplish.

1.04 – Four Relationships: This teaching explores the nature of the mission and what is being restored.  The fall was a loss of relationship and the mission is about restoring them.  There are four that we will specifically look at in this teaching.

1.05 – Love: This teaching explores the nature of love and wholeness and what abundant life looks like.  Love is central to the mission of God.  It is through the truth of His love that we are transformed.

1.06 – Redemption: This teaching explores the role redemption plays in the journey.  Redemption is the process of trading in what we have created and leaving it at the cross.  When we trade it in, we are now able to receive what God has for us.

1.07 – Restoration: This teaching explores the cost of our brokenness and the value of the examined life.  What does it mean to step into restoration and wholeness?  The call to follow is to step into that space of exploration.

1.08 – Reconciliation: This teaching explores the role of reconciliation in the mission.  Reconciliation is central to community and yet is often avoided because of the conflict.  This teaching sheds light on the process groups use to practice reconciliation.

1.09 – Voices: This teaching explores the nature of what it means to listen to God’s voice in our lives and how we can learn to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit.  Learning to follow means working past hearing and listening and engaging what His voice calls us to.

1.10 – Two Kingdoms: The teaching looks at the two opposing kingdoms. God kingdom is primarily defined by love and restores us.  The enemy’s kingdom is defined by fear and control.  We are born into the enemy’s kingdom.  Following means coming over to the winning side.

1.11 – Enemy: This teaching explores the presence of the enemy; it’s history, how it works and how we destroy its work in our lives.  The primary work of the enemy is through lies.  Restoration comes from removing those lies.