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What is B4U?
B4U is a youth sponsor and youth small group leader training for adults
who wish to help mold and re-shape the youth in our church and community.
The B4U Seminars
are designed to be completed before you (get it, B4U) begin
leading/mentoring youth
Since this Seminar is just
beginning, I am anticipating lots of growth, adaptation, and change over
the course and breadth of its life.
Dates: B4U
Seminars will be held annually during the Summer.
Some of the topics that will be
covered are:
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Our Vision
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The Big Picture. Where we
want to go, and what we want the YG to look like.
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Support the Minister
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Importance of Commitment
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Postmodernism
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Third Place Principle
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The Leader as Example
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What is a D-Group?
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Spiritual formation
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Teaching styles
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Confidentiality
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Discipline
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Mentorship
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Internship
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Small Group Tactics
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Leaders are Learners
All classes will be held from
6:30-8:00 PM at HCC.
Cost: For HCC members, no
cost is involved in taking this class.
For non-members, there is a $10.00 registration and materials
fee.
If you have any further
questions or comments, please feel free to contact HCC at: 256-864-2220.
B4U Seminars Class Notes
B4U Seminar Class 1-6 Notes updated December ‘06.
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B4U Begin
There are many of us today who have come to
believe that the “gospel” being presented to much of the Protestant world is
a divided and segmented version of the “original” gospel message; “one that
reduces the call to Kingdom life to be simply belief about Jesus while
leaving the discipline of discipleship in the Christian life to the “very”
devote.
While this is not true in every case, many of
us in the Protestant church have erred in our emphasis on the teachings of
Christ without requiring those who claim to follow Him to actually live out
what they profess to believe.
As Dallas Willard states, “For at least several
decades the churches of the Western world have not made discipleship a
condition of being a Christian. One
is not required to be, or to intend to be, a disciple in order to become a
Christian, and one may remain a Christian without any sighs of progress
toward or in discipleship.
Contemporary American churches in particular do not require
following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition for
membership.
Brothers and sisters, it is time for this to
stop! We must begin teaching the
whole gospel: the truth and
teachings of Jesus and how to live it out.
This means that we are going to have to change the way we live. We are going to have to become disciples
(learners) of Jesus. We are going to
have to walk in the Way.
Do you not find inspiring to imagine an
approach to spiritual formation that can impact us in a pervasive, deeply
life-altering way. . . . a spiritual formation
that, in its essence, is not about individual effort but communal action
involving a spirituality of physicality, centered on the way we lead our
lives, allowing us to be Christian in and with our bodies and not in our
minds and hearts only; a
spirituality of dialog within communities where the goal is not acquiring
knowledge, but spurring one another on to new ways of imagining and
learning; a spirituality of hospitality that is not limited to food before
or after meetings, but is intended to create an environment of love and
connectedness where people are formed and shaped as they serve and are
served by one another; a
spirituality of the knowledge of God where the Bible is a full, living, and
active member of our community that is listened to on all topics of which
it speaks; a spirituality of
creativity where creative gifts are not used as content support but rather
as an invitation for those so inclined to participate in the generative
process of God; a spirituality of
service, which is the natural response of all seeking to live in the way of
Jesus and is not reserved for the elite of the faith (Pagitt,
Reimagining Spiritual Formation, 32).
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