Day 38 : Class Meeting
Reflecting and Recording
As you read the description of the class meeting, what aspect of ir strikes you as most important? Why?
How do you feel about accountability (including possible expulsion) that presupposes a voluntary association and up front agreement to keep covenant with the rest of the group?
Relating
Avail yourself of two excellent small-group expressions ;
Covenant Discipleship ( cdgroups@umcdiscipleship.org ) and
Renovare ( renovare.org).
Each ministry website provides descriptive materials.
Compare them with elements in Wesley’s class meeting.
Day 38
1. As you read the description of the class meeting, what aspects of this strike you as most important? And why?
I do agree that each of us should be disciplined in our own spiritual growth.
My first instinct was complaining groups, small, gatherings that we do already. I wanted to dig into this a little bit deeper it’s not according to the website CDgroups@UMCdiscipleship.org.
This is not any of those.
It is a very specific group of people to get together. And formally open prayer, discuss scripture strictly for one hour, and then close in prayer. They are specifically building on their spiritual maturity. Which I feel the other groups do. But this one is very strict…