{"id":2158,"date":"2020-05-30T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2020-05-28T18:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T00:01:01","slug":"the-necessity-of-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"The Necessity of Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been writing about Dr. Greg Ogden&#8217;s approach to making reproducing disciples beginning with his <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2152\">laser focus<\/a> and his belief in <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2155\">transformational micro-groups<\/a>. Today I&#8217;ll close with his argument for biblically-based curriculum, not just for bible knowledge but&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A curriculum that covers the foundation for a life in Christ and is the empowerment tool used to disciple others. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He argues that without a curriculum you have&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>No plan<\/li><li>No intentionality<\/li><li>No transferrable tool<\/li><li>No sense of progress<\/li><li>No structure<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naturally, he likes his book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobaldiscipleshipinitiative.org\/en-us\/resources\/books\">Discipleship Essentials<\/a>. I&#8217;m partial to discipleship tools developed by The Navigators including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Navigators&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/nav27series.org\/\">2:7 Series<\/a> (3-book series)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/everymanawarrior.com\/\">Every Man a Warrior<\/a> (3-book series)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highquest.info\/men-on-a-mission-series.html\">High Quest, Men on a Mission<\/a> (3-track series, several books\/track)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highquest.info\/women-of-distinction-series.html\">Women of Distinction<\/a> (3-track series, several books\/track)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/p\/a-womans-journey-of-discipleship-1-bridges-on-the-journey\/9781631465369\">Women&#8217;s Journey of Discipleship<\/a> (3-book series)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These tools incorporate spiritual disciplines, encourage personal application, and require accountability. Leadership training and reproducibility are built in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2084\">first steps<\/a> I wrote about on May 7 was finding someone to invest in. When we do, these are the kind of tools &#8211; curriculum &#8211; we will want to use. This is good news! The tools have been built. All we need to do is use them! I&#8217;ll talk more about that tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. (Acts 20.27, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Repeat these basic essentials over and over to God&#8217;s people. Warn them before God against pious nitpicking, which chips away at the faith. It just wears everyone out. Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won&#8217;t be ashamed of, laying out the truth plain and simple. (2 Timothy 2.14, 15, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been writing about Dr. Greg Ogden&#8217;s approach to making reproducing disciples beginning with his laser focus and his belief in transformational micro-groups. Today I&#8217;ll close with his argument for biblically-based curriculum, not just for bible knowledge but&#8230; A curriculum that covers the foundation for a life in Christ and is the empowerment tool used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Necessity of Curriculum<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-yO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}