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Are you spiritually stuck? Are you looking to go deeper with God and in relationship with others? Would you like to make God a priority in your life? Would you like to live more like Jesus every day?
This isn't a coffee club, or another Bible study. It's a place filled with love and trust, not comparison or judgment. Yes, it is one more thing to do every week, but just imagine how it could change the other hundreds of things you have to do every week.
INTRODUCING CARMEL DISCIPLESHIP QUADS
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relationship, not program
Discipling is not a program, but a relationship.
While there is a place for listening to sermons, sitting in a class, participating in a fellowship group, or attending a study group in the workplace, discipleship occurs through relationships.
"Missionary disciples accompany missionary disciples".
- Pope Francis
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How discipleship happens
Discipleship happens in the context of highly accountable, relationally transparent, truth-centered, discipleship quads of four women or four men.
"Jesus' leadership development of his under-shepherds was not so much a course or a curriculum as it was a shared life".
- Leighton Ford (Transforming Leadership)
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how does it work?
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Four men, or four women, commit to take a one-year spiritual journey together, spending 90 minutes a week, in prayer, fellowship and scriptural study, with the ultimate goal of helping each other become better disciples of Jesus.
Each of the four members facilitates the journey for a three-month period, with the facilitator role switching to a different participant every three months.
At the end of the year, each participant, if they want, can choose three other Catholic friends, form a new Carmel Discipleship Quad, and take the journey once again.
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the model
During the one-year journey, the Carmel Discipleship Quad employs the biblical model developed by Jesus and St. Paul, elucidated by Greg Ogden in his book Transforming Discipleship. We also use a 44-week study plan developed by the Franciscan University of Steubenville. The content is 100% Catholic and 100% free, and it forms us into better disciples by focusing on improving the following seven characteristics of a disciple.
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the 7 characteristics of a disciple
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1. IDENTITY
Our identity is rooted in being a child of the Father, redeemed by the Son, and alive in the Holy Spirit. We are loved because of who we are, not what we do.
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2. PRAYER
We have an active, daily life of prayer, both individually and communally, where we glorify God and seek His will. It becomes the air we breathe.
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3. SACRAMENTS
We prayerfully encounter Jesus on a regular basis through the sacraments of the Church and live in the power of the grace we have received through them.
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4. OBEDIENCE
We seek to understand and obey the teachings of Christ as passed on to us through the Apostles and now living in the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.
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5. COMMUNITY
We participate in our parish community and foster deeper relationships with individuals with whom we can share and grow in our faith.
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6. SERVICE
We devote our time, talent, and treasure to our parish, our community, and to those in need, encountering Jesus in “the least of these.”
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7. SHARING
In both words and action, we share the Good News of Jesus Christ, and we commit ourselves to helping others be His disciples
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the material
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weeks 1-10
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weeks 11-21
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weeks 22-33
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weeks 34-44
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COMING SOON!
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The first quad began meeting in late October, 2021 and is scheduled to run for a year. A second quad began in January, 2022. Please pray for all of those taking part.
If you have any questions, or would like more information, contact Dan Balogh at dabalogh@optonline.net.
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