Dwell Groups

Dwell in the Word and engage in the art of preaching.

ONE PURPOSE:

To ENGAGE the practice of preaching through the indwelling of preaching.
To ENCOURAGE one another through peer learning.
To ENHANCE preaching through group engagement with an online learning pathway and participation in the Bast Preaching Festival.

THREE PATHWAYS:

Local Groups meet face to face each month and attend the Bast Preaching Festival.
Regionally based groups meet 4-5 times during the year and attend the Bast Preaching Festival.
Geographically diverse groups meet face to face 4 times during the year (at the Bast Preaching Festival and 2 retreats) and online.

OUR PROMISE:

To provide an online learning pathway with resources for your group.
To cover registration fees, lodging and meals at the 2016 Bast Preaching Festival.
To provide additional opportunities and resources as needed.

YOUR PROMISE:

To covenant with group members to fully participate throughout the one year time period.
To attend the 2016 Bast Preaching Festival.
To provide a $150 participant fee (due by October 1, 2015).
To arrange for and fund your travel to Bast Preaching Festival and/or group meetings/retreat(s).

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Dwell Group Modules

In the preface to Eat This Book, Eugene Peterson writes, “In order to read the Scriptures adequately and accurately, it is necessary at the same time to live them.” As preachers, we take this one step further: in order to PREACH the Scriptures adequately and accurately, it is necessary at the same time to live them.

Dwell Group members will engage in the beautifully complicated task of living the sermon. We will enter scripture in a new way and allow it to take hold of us. We will learn to resist the temptation to quickly speak into Scripture and instead have the Scriptures speak to us.

Over the next year, we will follow the outline of the preacher’s task: Dwell, Craft, Proclaim. And we will ask the same four questions of each element of the outline: why, what, how, and when. These 12 modules will guide our conversation throughout the year. Each module contains an essay written specifically for Dwell Groups, several supporting videos, and an opportunity for you to reflect and practice.

MODULE 12: WHEN WE PROCLAIM

Resources

Below are the links for the articles that Tim Brown shared at our Dwell Group gathering on November 11, 2014

Dwell Groups

Dwell in the Word and engage in the art of preaching.

Get interested in taking a Dwell Group

Dwell Group Modules

Dwell

Craft

Proclaim

Resources

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