Gospel in Life
Tim Keller
About This Book
Gospel in Life is an intensive eight-session course on the gospel and how it is lived out in all of life – first in your heart, then in your community, and then out into the world. Session 1 opens the course with the theme of the city: your home now, the world that is. Session 8 closes the course with the theme of the eternal city: your heavenly home, the world that is to come. In between, you will look at how the gospel changes your heart (sessions 2 and 3), changes your community (sessions 4 and 5) and changes how you live in the world (sessions 6 and 7).
Categories
Basics, Community, Mission and Outreach, Spiritual GrowthType
DVD
Reviews
Keller is spot on with theology and challenges us to consider how the Gospel should impact every area of our lives. His delivery is a little dry but the videos are short and allow for ample discussion time. We were launching a small group so this was our first study. General feedback was positive but we were also learning a lot about each other. It did help that there wasn’t required prep time. However when I taught, I found the background instructional material to be outstanding. This material would allow a deeper dive than we took but it was a good first step for our group to have meaningful interaction.
Format was simple and the short 10 minute videos worked well as springboard for discussion. We felt the video teaching segments by Keller were very good and covered basics well.
The material and format is excellent. The video format was less intimidating as there was no “prep-work” required from the members and led to more discussion overall. It’s been a few years since we used a video series, however this was in the top 2 of video-based discussion series we have used to this day.
This study helped our group see that the gospel touches every area of our lives, not just a “spiritual” slice of life. One of the best things about it is that each video session is only 10 minutes long, which leaves plenty of time to discuss. The study guide has discussion question suggestions that are, for the most part, pretty good.
