Here’s the link for your to check out the curriculum bundle. I may bring this up to our community group to consider going through after we finish our series on “Christianity & Culture” put out by Zondervan. I think there will be a lot of keen observations that these two people make and my hope is that rather than exonerating hardened unbelief the conversation will demonstrate the value of healthy doubting in presence of a potentially slow resolve to that doubt…I guess we’ll see.
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April 30, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Jon
How has the “Christianity & Culture” series worked out for your group?
April 30, 2008 at 10:04 pm
setsnservice
Jon here’s the pro’s and con’s so far for us (we’re in week five of it now):
PROS: the videography quality is better than most, and the the colors scene’s etc. all show a lot of care on the directors part. The supplemental leaders guide was helpful as well, and the participants guide had a number of really well written articles on culture. Each video has provided our group with plenty of material to discuss and even argue over. And all and all I think its caused us to become as a group more aware of things like incarnational living, racial reconciliation, how to engage culture in our places of work, etc. They also did a great job of utilizing Christian leaders in different contexts: from urban, to suburban, to even exurban.
CONS: I’ve had to supplement the ’supplements’ a number of times. The questions they choose just weren’t that engaging or deep. There are some big picture issues like ‘what is culture’ that could have been articulated more clearly and the scriptual studies were just so-so. There also doesn’t seem to be enough of a strong connection between the videos so each video almost feels like a stand alone (which is good and bad). I do wish the sections were a little longer because things seem poorly developed like their ‘reconcile’ one.
But all and all I was very happy with the series and I’ve already suggested it to my other community group leaders (I’m a community group pastor). Its something I will use again in a year or two as this group grows and births a new one and new faces appear in our midst. So by all means buy it, its a good investment and I’d even suggest buying the participants guide because of the articles in it.
Blessings, Jon;
Tony
FYI the next series we’re going to do is one by Dan Allender and Tremper Longman on marriage, called “The Intimate Mystery”. Its worth checking out as well, and John Ortberg has a new series on Spiritual Friendships that sounds good as well…