This is our final Turbo Follow blog! As you know Cornerstone Church Winchendon is into week 9 of a congregation-wide study written by, Daniel McNaughton and Bryan Koch, entitled Follow: Learning To Follow Jesus. Each Sunday our pastoral staff has been preaching from one of the seven attributes covered in the book while the congregation has read the daily devotions and participated weekly in a life group focused around the topic at hand.
The group I am tasked with leading has been dubbed “Turbo Follow”. Rather than approaching the class as a traditional Bible study we have chosen to act as an accountability group. The class begins with a brief overview of the daily devotionals. Then participants break into smaller, accountability groups. Each group participant asks questions of their fellows concerning the teachings. At the end of each class individuals are asked to decide what God would have them do in light of what they have learned. Then we pray for each other.
As I said, this is our last post for the Turbo-Follow group. I hope you had fun. Please let me know this week what you have been learning as you have FOLLOWED!
Last week we had our discussions on Learning to manage our lives through Christ’s power. Here is a synopsis of each day’s devotional material:
Day 1: God wants you to learn to manage your thought life.
Day 2: God wants you to learn to manage your money.
Day 3: God wants you to learn to manage your body.
Day 4: God wants you to learn to manage your words.
Day 5: God wants you to learn to manage your time.
Day 6: God wants you to learn to manage your gifts and talents.
Here are the questions we asked of one another in our group:
- Of the “Managing devotions” which one stood out to you the most?
- What made that particular devotion stand out to you?
- What area of management does God want you to cooperate with Him on?
- How are you going to practically cooperate with Him?
Lillie-Put 
this sounds like such a great – practical study.
It really was. Our church is now going to use it for one to one or small group mentoring of new believers.
Oh – that sounds like a great tool
I will let you know how it works out!
Pastor J, thank you so much for teaching this class I really enjoyed it. The devotion that stood out the most was actually two of them and they kind of go hand and hand for me. Day 1; Managing your thought life and Day 3; Managing your body. God has been speaking to me to accept how He loves me and to know I am fully loved no matter what. Managing my body has always been a struggle(in my own strength) and God wants to help me if I let Him. Managing my thought life becomes challenging as I try to manage my body in the way of self-degradation and I know this is not what God wants for me because He did not create any mistakes. The practical aspect of this week’s lesson is reading His word and memorizing His word which will definitely help my thought life, as well as, learning to find comfort in Him and Him alone. Again, Pastor J thank you so much for teaching this class!
It was a a very great pleasure to lead this group Deb! It was certainly unique in my experience. I fully uinderstand where you are coming from. Learning to rest in who and how God made us is a very great blessing the Holy Spirit has for us!