Subscribe

Enter your e-mail address:

Latest Activity

  • About

Dr. Del Tackett is the author, architect and teacher for Focus on the Family's The Truth Project, a nationwide initiative designed to bring the Christian worldview to the body of Christ.

Links

 

 

© 2008 Focus on the Family. All rights reserved.


“Knighting” the Institute Class

Posted on July 3, 2009
Filed Under The Focus Leadership Institute |

At some point during the semester, each Institute class is trained to be a Truth Project small group leader.

That happened yesterday.

I call it a “knighting” of sorts, because there is a commissioning that goes way beyond just handing each of them a copy of the Truth Project DVDs.

We are on a quest. The quest is to ask God to use our humble efforts to prepare the Body of Christ…to make her ready, strong, healthy.

That means we seek for God to deeply transform His people—a transformation that we believe comes primarily through the intimate fellowship of small groups, authentic discussions, and supported with the fervent prayers of the host.

We have heard thousands of testimonies from those who have followed this pattern, which we believe is blessed because it is what God desires of us, and not too many from those who haven’t.

So, we “knight” our students to go forth, committed to the proposition that God is the One whom we will be calling upon to do this work and that there is nothing magic in the DVDs to do so. We also hope and pray that they will catch a vision to establish an on-going work at their university, targeting the very vulnerable freshmen, so that there will be someone to perpetuate the small groups long after they have departed.

What an exciting work to be involved in!

So, go forth, Sir Gregory. Go forth Sister Anna (is that how you address a female knight?)

Comments

2 Responses to ““Knighting” the Institute Class”

  1. Tony on July 7th, 2009 9:47 am

    A female knight is referred to as dane. Sister Anna would be called Dane Anna.

  2. Catherine on July 15th, 2009 4:47 pm

    The knighting and daning of young men and women sounds wonderful; I am grateful for the relational declarations.

    Though my husband and I are old (not qualified by age for the Institute)nevertheless, since we completed The Truth Project we are leading five groups of Christians through the tours. The fellowship and the transformations amaze and inspire us. While young people work on their peers we work on their parents and grandparents.

    We love the fellowship, the transformation and the possibility of developing other leaders in our stage of Eternal Life.

Leave a Reply

Comments are moderated and will not appear on deltackett.com until they've been approved. While we are eager to facilitate conversation by publishing most comments, we may withhold one from time to time if we deem it offensive, vulgar, overly personal, cynical, disrespectful, irrelevant, redundant or unnecessarily contentious. While we encourage you not to make others' misspellings and grammatical mistakes an issue of debate, please do your best to double-check your spelling, use correct capitalization, and use proper grammar.
Comments on Del Tackett's blog may not refer specifically to any current electoral candidate, or any measure on a current ballot – at any level of local, state, or federal government. Focus on the Family is a non-profit 501(c)(3) entity, and therefore cannot take a position on specific votes. Nor can we display any such statements on our Web sites. Likewise, we cannot discuss here the personal viewpoints of people like Dr. Dobson or Jim Daly on political candidates or ballot measures. Any posts to this forum which violate these rules will be removed. There is an alternative venue for this type of discussion. Some activities of this nature are undertaken by Focus on the Family Action, a 501(c)(4) organization, and its media outlet, Citizenlink.