8-Week Core Plan

Chris and Ricky’s 8-week Core Plan
January 16 – March 5
Core Time: Wednesdays at 8:30

For the next 7 weeks, our Core group will be reading through John. For homework each week, everyone is going to read three chapters of John. Each week at Core, we will spend around 20 minutes discussing what people got from the reading: best ideas, lessons learned, questions, etc. (Which that time can really go on for as long as necessary, as long as there is good, productive discussion.) Ricky or I will then prepare something that we have pulled from the passage that we would like to focus on in more detail, a lesson of sorts. (Those topics are not decided yet.)

Before the main discussion time and lesson starts, we will have someone from the Core share a Worship thought. Ricky and I wanted to pick a book to read because we are wanting our Core guys to spend more time in the word, actually reading it for themselves. We are going to plan to have more outside Core activities for our group. More hang-out time outside of Core is one thing most of our guys mentioned that they wanted to see this semester.

Tentative Reading/Lesson Schedule
January 16 – Discuss John chapters 1-3
January 23 – Discuss John chapters 4-6
January 30 – Discuss John chapters 7-9
February 06 – Discuss John chapters 10-12
February 13 – Discuss John chapters 13-15
February 20 – Discuss John chapters 16-18
February 27 – Discuss John chapters 19-21
March 5 – “Hang-out Night” (This night may be shuffled earlier.)

(*I am supposed to credit Aaron and Chris, as they gave us this brilliant idea.*)