Bible study for non-Christians
Last night we had our first pre-launch community group for Horizon and it was awesome. Just to finally have most of our group together in one place for a couple hours was very encouraging. As most church groups do we had food to eat and a time to just hung out before we jumped into some study. We are starting to study the book of John, and last night we spent close to an hour studying and discussing the first chapter.
Things went well, and I thought that our group really got into some great study and discussion, but on the way home my wife and I both felt the same way about the study time. We both felt like it was a time that would have been really hard for a non-Christian to jump into. We couldn’t pin point a specific problem, but it just felt like a very typical situation to the both of us. We really didn’t use an abundance of confusing “church” words or anything like that, but it still felt very “churchey” and neither one of us could really figure out how to make it true Bible study and yet still appealing to non-believers.
As a church, we want to do everything that we can to reach out to the lost and broken of the community; so here’s the question I am posing. What kind of elements would a Bible study that targeted non-Christians have? To me, making simple Bible study appealing and relevant to non-Christians is probably one of the true keys to reaching a community and growing a church. Thoughts?
