By Marty Schoenleber, Jr.
Recently, our church started to rethink how we are forming people in Christ, i.e. discipleship. As a part of that process I ran across one church’s description of
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The Chair
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The Row
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The Circle
I thought it was very helpful but have expanded it for our purposes to
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The Chair
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The Row
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The Circle
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The Table
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The Shop or the ‘Hood
We call it our “discipling environments” and encourage everyone to be involved in all of them in 12 month cycles. Here’s how we describe them and remind our people of what they are and why they are important.
Environments for Discipleship
At THE SANCTUARY we are serious about following Jesus. That doesn’t mean we are perfect, not even close, but it does mean that we are making progress in learning to live passionately for and like Christ.
One of the discoveries that we have made over the years is that becoming a disciple, a true follower of Christ, happens best when we embrace in a purposeful way five different environments for discipleship. Those five environments are:
The Row — Sunday Worship
The Circle — Home-Groups
The Chair — Personal Devotions
The Table — One-on-One
The Shop — Where You Live and Work (or “the Hood”)
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This article originally posted on the "ChosenRebel's Blog" on August 15, 2028