Austin City Life
It's easy to start a Fight Club. It's the fighting that's hard. Here are a few guidelines for starting your Fight Club.
Choose Your Fight Club Partners
Fight Clubs are relationally driven, so pick people you can trust. Establish an agreed upon level of confidentiality within your group. Make a commitment to one another. Fight Clubs of uncommitted people simply don't promote gospel-centered fighting.
Read the Book
People who don't read the book, especially chapters 2 through 5, don't fight well. They end up bullies who promote legalism or wimps who promote license. Reading the book will get you on the same gospel page, so you can fight sin the way God wants us to! We recommend discussing portions of the book in your first meeting, especially chapters 3 and 5.
Set a Regular Meeting Time
One of the first things you should do is sync your calendars for a regular meeting time.If you don't schedule a regular meeting time, you won't meet regularly. Meet once a week or every other week. Allow at least an hour.
Use a Flexible Structure
The goal of your time together is not to read Scripture or socialize; it's to encourage one another to treasure Christ where we treasure him least. To do this, a structure is necessary that flexes with the Spirit in your group. We call the structure Text-Theology-Life.
Choose Your Fight Club Partners
Fight Clubs are relationally driven, so pick people you can trust. Establish an agreed upon level of confidentiality within your group. Make a commitment to one another. Fight Clubs of uncommitted people simply don't promote gospel-centered fighting.
Read the Book
People who don't read the book, especially chapters 2 through 5, don't fight well. They end up bullies who promote legalism or wimps who promote license. Reading the book will get you on the same gospel page, so you can fight sin the way God wants us to! We recommend discussing portions of the book in your first meeting, especially chapters 3 and 5.
Set a Regular Meeting Time
One of the first things you should do is sync your calendars for a regular meeting time.If you don't schedule a regular meeting time, you won't meet regularly. Meet once a week or every other week. Allow at least an hour.
Use a Flexible Structure
The goal of your time together is not to read Scripture or socialize; it's to encourage one another to treasure Christ where we treasure him least. To do this, a structure is necessary that flexes with the Spirit in your group. We call the structure Text-Theology-Life.
- TALK: Spend some time catching up on life. If we don't do this, we fight in the dark, isolated from what God is doing in the larger picture of our lives. Pray and ask the Spirit to lead you to Christ in your discussion. (15 min)
- TEXT-THEOLOGY-LIFE: Make the gospel central by reading through the same passage of Scripture together each week. Focus in on the main theological teaching in the text and share how the Spirit is applying those truths to your life. (30 min)
- PRAY: Spend some time praying the gospel into on another's lives. Pray promises, hopes, fears, confessions. Pray for people in your life who don't know Jesus. (15 min)
