Bible Study Fellowship (BSF)

Having moved to inner Melbourne this year, one of my new year resolutions was to join BSF conducted in my church, Cross Culture Church of Christ. There is no excuse to join since it's a 2 min walk from my house and fellowship is every Monday night which will never be affected by placements since monday is always a study day.

We are into our 11th lesson now and i must say, in all honesty, the experience has been bitter sweet. Let me explain.

BSF has been really good as it uses a Four-Fold Approach to learning, comprising of the following:

• Daily questions for individual Bible study
• Discussion groups
• Challenging lectures
• Study notes

Each book studied is done over a year, with about one chapter a week. It brings one back to the basics yet still providing depth of content.

I really enjoy the daily questions, discussion groups, the study notes as it has many times reminded me of basic Christian teaching which i have forgotten or let slipped over the years.

The only thing that has been very hard to get used to is the style of teaching. Dun get me wrong. there is nothing wrong with the style used. it's just not my cup of tea. I'm so used to the contemporary style that i felt it was a bit conservative.

But the funny thing is, just when i was mentioning to my housemate how bitter sweet BSF was, focusing on the negative, reading of the lecture notes after that (as part of homework) was filled with so much goodie that i was like, 'who says BSF is not good?'. oh well. =)