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Student Expectations
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Students should recognize that the leaders believe in them, love them and give thanks to God for them.  It is important that they hear about the leaders’ own successes and failures while setting a high standard of Christian living for them.  Challenges should be offered that stretch their faith and refine their ministry skills.

  • Students should be encouraged to discover and use their gifts as God has given them (Ephesians 4:7, 1 Corinthians 14:1).
  • Students should learn discernment.  They will gain a sound doctrinal foundation.
  • Students should be stimulated to increase their level of knowledge, interests, growth, and relationships… recognizing that God wants growth.
  • Students should allow the leader to help them:
1. Discover past hindrances,
2. Better understand the environment in which they live,
3. Learn how Discipleship—through the Word—will meet specific needs, solve problems, fulfill Biblical commands, and relate to their spiritual hopes and demands,
4. Be encouraged to glorify God in everything they do.
  • Students should be expected to faithfully study the Word and carefully read all that is required in the course:
1. The living Word is studied to obtain the life that God gives us in Christ, as this is His Word that generates new life in us.
2. The Word gives us the light of divine truth so that we can escape the darkness of ignorance.
3. Strengthening our faith, the Word renews and transforms our minds and hearts, filling us with the wisdom and understanding, which comes from God.
4. Through the Word, the Holy Spirit gives the ability to do the will of God, thus glorifying Him.
5. The goal is to make strong disciples of Jesus, avoiding false teachings and false ways.
  • Students should understand that they are accountable to the Holy Spirit who provides illumination through the Word and to the group leaders who are given responsibility and authority to help develop them as disciples of Jesus Christ:
1. Students should understand that they are accountable to the Holy Spirit who provides illumination through the Word and to the group leaders who are given responsibility and authority to help develop them as disciples of Jesus Christ:
2. Students are to notify the group leaders in the event they will have to miss a group meeting and arrange a “make-up session” so as to keep pace with the group.
3. Whenever a disagreement or a question of theology arises, students are to raise the issue in class or find a time to meet one-on-one with a leader to resolve the issue.