Developing a Study — Part 4 — Application

“You must teach what is in accord with sound doc­trine” (Titus 2:1)

We’re tak­ing a look at how to develop a study for your GROWTH Group, based around the acronym SOAR.

Today, we’re look­ing at the next part of this — A for Application

APPLICATION
Group envir­on­ments cre­ate a won­der­ful oppor­tun­ity to dis­cuss truth in such a way as to apply it to life. Again, inten­tional use of lead­ing ques­tions as to the rami­fic­a­tions of the scrip­tures on our daily choices and atti­tudes can pro­duce defin­ing moments in people’s lives. If prac­tical, con­sider using vari­ous meth­ods of learn­ing such as hav­ing smal­ler break-out groups of two or three dis­cuss a
point and return with answers. Use brain­storm­ing tech­niques to get people’s thoughts in the open, and then have the group agree on the best out­come. Your pre­vi­ously determ­ined teach­ing goal begins to find its fruition in this sec­tion of the meet­ing, where people con­sider their life in com­par­ison with what they agree to be truth.

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Writ­ten by Pat Hegarty, from STEP 4 — Passing It On.
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