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Schedule - Thursday Noon Men's Bible Group

(12:00-1:00, Thursdays) Bring your own food or buy pot luck overflow from Wednesaday night, $2, no reservations needed. Contact Jim Hatfield for information.

We use the Upper Room and concentrate on the scriptures listed for Friday lessons through Thursday each Thursday meeting. In early May, 2007, we made a change from grading the readings to emphasizing the scriptures . In the new way, we read/discuss the Scripture references in the applicable Upper Room stories and discontinue the grading of the stories. (We didn't feel it right to "grade" the Scripture, so the entire grading process has been eliminated). That said, now all you need do is come prepared to discuss the Upper Room Scripture references for the week..... maybe taking/bringing some notes on each referenced Scripture passage and being prepared to discuss any that enlightened, impacted, puzzled, intrigued, amused, angered, lifted, depressed, or concerned you. Your call.

We also use the same way the Men's Devotional Bible (NIV) by Zondervan. About $20.

Reading Schedule is at http://donredding.com/1501.htm. The below pictured Book is at Amazon, click here.

Emails from the past _

NOTE 2007 Change in FORMAT:

Guys: (5/14/2007)

Men's Bible Study - New Study Process

After discussion, we've decided to change the process which we use in

Thursday's Bible studies. It seemed that, in the old way, we talked

about Scripture but gradually got away from actually studying in the

Scripture. We began to emphasize the Upper Room stories

(giving grades 1 - 10), and rarely discussed the Scriptural references.

In the new way, we'll read/discuss the Scripture references in the

applicable Upper Room stories and discontinue the grading of the

stories. (We didn't feel it right to "grade" the Scripture, so the entire

grading process has been eliminated).

That said, now all you need do is come prepared to discuss the Upper

Room Scripture references for the week..... maybe taking/bringing some

notes on each referenced Scripture passage and being prepared to

discuss any that enlightened, impacted, puzzled, intrigued, amused, angered,

lifted, depressed, or concerned you. Your call.

We've tried this for a couple of weeks and it seems to work out OK.

Discussions have been lively.

Look forward to seeing you Thursday.

Any questions, just ask.

Jim Hatfield
(5/14/2007)

Here's my take on what we agreed to today:

We will continue to use the Men's Devotional Bible as per the published schedule and will rate as outlined below.

In addition, each member will read a week's worth - Friday through the next Thursday - of "Upper Room" devotions and report to the group on any lesson that particularly "spoke" to them. The lessons may be "graded" 1 - 10 with 1=Ho Hum, not much good, 10 =Wow, I need to read that over and over. (Change from 1- 5 scale in June 2006.)

and we'll summarize the "scores" for the entire group. A week will be defined as Friday to Thursday. Example - We are to meet on Thursday, Sep 8th.

The Upper Room Devotions studied would be: Fri Sep 2 thru Thur Sep 8.

I will prepare and bring a grid template to summarize the scores.....

(modified by don 10/29/05 and 6/8/06 ) As to meals: We get pot luck from the Hot Wednesday meal the night before for ($2). Shebra said that the extra food is shared with So. Tryon and us. At any rate, we would still be at the mercy of Wednesday night leftovers and, presumably, some weeks there would be very little or none..... Looks like we need to be very flexible until the ladies group decides to meet and eat again so we can get back to regular Thursday vittles. (Ladies' group disbanded in 2005). Sound about right?

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