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smallgroup Blogger Small Group Starting next Wednesday, I’ll be partnering with Run’n Like a Vagabond to launch the Blogger Small Group.

Here’s how it will work:

Each Wednesday at Run’n Like a Vagabond, Kyle will release the Scriptures that we will study.
The following Tuesday on your own blog you need to post a blog entry going through the Scripture and discuss what you’ve discovered and learned from each verse (akin to my “My Bible Journey”, but not so long-winded.)
In your post, make sure you are linked to Kyle’s own Blogger Small Group post for that day.
You will then enter post at Kyle’s Small Group Blog Entry. (If you’ve ever participated in a Creative Chaos at RagamuffinSoul, it will be set up similarly. If not, then check it out here.)

I think this is a great idea, and yet another way for us to build up our blogging community. What better way than by reading the Word together and sharing insights. Truly iron sharpening iron.

Thanks, Kyle, for setting this up and hosting it on your blog.

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By Jeff M. Miller

April 17, 2008

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pete said

on April 18, 2008

very cool!

Chris said

on April 18, 2008

This sounds like a fine idea but do you (and all the other bloggers out there) really have time for all this??

Chriss last blog post..World Record Slam Dunk

Jeff M. Miller said

on April 18, 2008

@Chris: Quite honestly, I will have to shift some other things in my life around, but they are things that are frivolous in nature. What better shifting of activities than to make more time for studying Scripture? I’m getting pretty close to never watching television anymore except for news, so I think I might be onto something.

Chris said

on April 18, 2008

Jeff - I hope my comment didn’t come off as flippant or disrespectful. It would be much easier if everyone just disabled comments

I guess I’m just thinking about how much time we give to this stuff. Of course there’s nothing wrong with studying scripture and spend more time in the word but is adding one more THING to our blog life really that valuable?

Part of the reason of why I blog is for the resourcing and the community but I also know that those who are trying to facilitate community (the ones mentioned in your post and others) are gaining great benefit from all of us linking back to their sites on a very frequent basis.

Again, not flippant or sour grapes - just trying to see where all of this is going.

Chriss last blog post..A beautiful night for a ballgame!

Jeff M. Miller said

on April 18, 2008

@Chris: No, you didn’t come across flippant to me in the least. I think your question is very valid, and I one we should all ask ourselves. This whole blogging community thing could easily turn into a monster of gigantic proportion if we don’t place margins on ourselves.

The thing I’m really liking about the growing community is the way we can speak into one another’s lives. Finding a group to study Scripture with in such a way really appeals to me, and it will keep me from doing other things that are not as beneficial.

All that being said, I know eventually this whole thing will get to the point where the return on investment it is a negative. That’s the point at which I hope I recognize the fault and reign myself in.

Kyle said

on April 19, 2008

Hey Chris, I hope I can jump in this conversation. I completely agree with you. Or at least most the way. As a blogger, it definitely takes up a lot of time that I could be building his kingdom more, or doing something just more productive in general.

Honestly, the reason this small group has been created is so that while we are blogging, we can have something purposeful to blog about. It will give us a reason to step away from the blog, and read. Once we do read and study the Word, we can then bring it back here, and share with our readers. it’s an investment that goes farther than just reading a blog and commenting. It allows us to grow spiritually and emotionally. In Christ, and in a community.

And again i want you to know that I understand what you’re saying, and I also did not take it offensively.

Be blessed.

Kyles last blog post..HOME!

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