Here is my third review of the Hardcore 1:1 presentation.

To see the UBF presentation that I am reviewing, please see part 1. This review covers section 6:

1. Introduction: Why? (slides 5 – 6)    2 slides
2. Definition (slides 8 – 9)      2 slides
3. Origin (slides 11 – 14)      4 slides
4. Importance (slides 16 – 18)     3 slides
5. Advantages & Potential (slides 20 – 26)    7 slides
6. Obstacles vs. Motivation (slides 28 – 31)     4 slides
7. Practical Application (slides 33 – 39)     7 slides
8. Conclusion: God’s hope! (slides 41 – 44)     4 slides

Slide 28 – Setup Questions 

The motivation section begins with two questions: If 1:1 bible study is so good, why do we hesitate to do 1:1 bible study?  And why should we do 1:1 bible study in spite of all these obstacles?

These are loaded questions. Did we actually prove that 1:1 is so good? How do we know that people are hesitating to do 1:1? What obstacles are we facing?

Before we can process this material, these questions plant the following concepts: 1) UBF 1:1 is good  2) UBF members are hesitating  and 3) UBF 1:1 faces many obstacles.

Slide 29 – A list of obstacles

Six obstacles to 1:1 are presented. I added what I think is being planted by each of these “obstacles”:

• “I don’t want to die” (fear of death)
• “1:1 is too hard” (fear of complexity)
• “I’m too young” (fear of authority)
• “I’m too busy” (fear of failure)
• “That’s not my thing” (fear facing one’s true self)
• “I don’t want to be rude” (fear of offending people)

Slide 30 then asks, “How can we overcome all these obstacles?” I would ask, “Are these obstacles real? Should Christians be motivated by fear? Where is love for people in this? Why all the negative pushing? What about positive drawing and striving to please God?”

Slide 31 – Reasons to do 1:1

We are then presented with 5 reasons why we should want to do 1:1 and led to believe these would over come the six obstacles above. But are these 5 reasons even related to the 6 obstacles?

• Thankfulness for God’s grace
• Sense of obligation
• Understand God’s heart
• Practical obedience!!!!!!
• 1:1 -> deep and lasting friendships

These “motivators” don’t quite make sense. Are these valid drivers for Christian behavior? Is UBF 1:1 the main outcome of such reasons?