The Power of a Praying Wife: Please Read & Respond
We are about to go into Chapter 4 of this book. I’ve been sick this week, and haven’t had a chance to get the post together for it. Kaylee came home Friday (yesterday) afternoon, and this morning (Saturday) early we will be leaving to go work at our family’s church camp to get it ready for camp in July. So, rather than cram a post together for an important chapter, I thought I’d come to you with some concerns.
When we presented the idea of this study, the feedback was wonderful. People commented and emailed and blogged about it, seemed excited by the prospect of the study. Since beginning the study, every Saturday when I put a post up, I see the stats of the hundreds of people who read it. But, there is little to no participation.
If you are participating in this Bible study, please respond. If you want to respond anonymously, you can. Just use the word “anonymous” in the name section of the comments.
- Is this study what you imagined it would be? Are you getting what you hoped from it?
- Is there anything you would like to see done differently?
- Is your lack of participation due to the comments being closed and the forum being open?
- If you are participating on your own, is there something keeping you from joining in the chapter discussions?
- Please pray and share any additional thoughts.
I appreciate your feedback. This my first online Bible study, but I feel led to conduct many more and I want to make sure they’re done in a way that bring a blessing to you.
Thanks!
Hallee
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Is this study what you imagined it would be? Are you getting what you hoped from it?
yers
Is there anything you would like to see done differently?
cant think of anything
Is your lack of participation due to the comments being closed and the forum being open?
no the forum is great
If you are participating on your own, is there something keeping you from joining in the chapter discussions?
what you write is so good i dont think i can add much
Please pray and share any additional thoughts
i look forward to this every saturday thank you for this class god bless you
1. Is this study what you imagined it would be? Are you getting what you hoped from it?
I’m getting much more than I had thought I would be….if I could tell you the difference since just starting this, I am not even sure you would believe me.
2. Is there anything you would like to see done differently?
I can’t think of anything.
3. Is your lack of participation due to the comments being closed and the forum being open?
Nope
4. If you are participating on your own, is there something keeping you from joining in the chapter discussions?
The only one I didn’t was the chapter about his job…but you knew that.
5. Please pray and share any additional thoughts.
Hallee, I so appreciate this so much…I can’t even put it into words. And i figured that we might take a break for a week, maybe even 2, with Kaylee coming home. And I am so ok with that. I truly understand if you want to. Even if you decide to stop the study, I understand, but I am going to continue it…and be prepared for me to pester you with your take on some things :)
Again, thank you so much.
Hello!
I apologize that I haven’t participated more. I am pregnant and due June 17th (so basically anytime in the next three weeks) and I have had some stuff come up about that and I haven’t had a lot of time). I have printed off all of the discussion questions and prompts and have thought about them (I have even been meaning to sit down and do a post), I just haven’t been very good at sitting down and writing things online. I am having the same problem with finding time for my blog right now!
I am sorry if I am wasting your time and I really am enjoying this – I just seem to be in a season of my life that really limits most things at the moment.
Blessings to you!
I don’t feel like my time is wasted at all!
Hallee –
I want to apologize for not doing my part on a consistent basis. I have excuses, but none of them seem good enough.
I have definitely taken away quite a bit from the work I’ve done already in the study and I do hope you’ll continue with it.
I don’t really have anything negative to say about the forum or the way you’re running the study. For me, it is just myself getting in the way of being a better participant.
Hallee – I really want to continue with this study. I bought the book and the guide and couldn’t wait to dive in! I started on Chapt 1 then things around here got overwhelming.
We have friends living with us until an appt opens up in the area they are looking for. My 22 yr old and his GF “borrow” my computer for online applications and schooling. My 17 yr old son is enlisting in the Army, and the paperwork for that has been mountainous (plus he’s graduating high school!) My 6 yr old is graduating kindy, I am trying to get her accepted into private school for next year and she is finally getting over pneumonia. My 4 yr old is becoming a handfull and half! And my hubby and I have been at each others throats. I guess I’m not good with personal structure these days, even though I need it more than ever right now!
Sorry for airing my laundry, as you can see, I still desperately need this push for the study. I would love it if you continued it, but I would have to take a slower approach right now. Maybe an every other week forum? (since we’ve all got tons going on?)
Oh and one other thing… I’ve only seen the first post about the forum and this last post come through my email, so I didn’t have those reminders to stay on task. Do I need to set up a separate RSS feed?
Thanks so much for your wonderful and informative blog!
Keep on keepin’ on!
I’m not participating in this, not being a praying person, (so it’s okay not to include this comment) but I’ve been following it. The questions are good, but maybe answering them all at once in a list makes it harder for any one point to be discussed back and forth. If you posted the list but then talked about each question individually, I wonder how that would work. You’re getting some very personal answers but each block of answers stands alone. When the answers are listed in a numbered list without the questions included, it’s harder to remember how the answers relate to the questions and harder to have a discussion about them. It’s possible that some people hesitate to post personal answers but would participate in a more general converstaion. (OTOH, the personal answers make the conversation deeper, so maybe that’s a trade-off you wouldn’t want.) Also answering the whole list at once might feel like a chore.
Those are my thoughts.
Those are good thoughts. Thank you.
Thank you for this study. I was actually just about to start blogging through this book when I saw your study starting the very same week. I have so appreciated how you have shared from your own life.
The forum is a great setting for discussion, but I agree with the last commenter (hd), that it is hard to discuss when each post is such a huge block of thoughts. I have also never been on a forum before, so I feel a little uncertain how much “chatter” you want in the questions threads. I have been unsure how to (and when to) respond when people have answered the questions. I’m not sure how to spark more conversation. The questions are great for focusing our thoughts as we pray through each chapter.
I think it is also true that different topic and chapters will resonate more or less with people. The chapter on finances was a little harder for me to answer the questions because my husband and I have not struggled with finances as much as other topics.
Thank you for this study. I will be continuing through this with you and I’ll try to be more deliberate about our discussion.
I am doing the study, but I am also doing other studies as well. I have enough time to read the chapter and pray the prayer for the week. Sorry that I haven’t been in on the discussion. I think I am overwhelmed at the long questions and so I don’t answer any. I actually prayed one of the prayers over my husband one morning and he loved it. Most of all, I always pray, Lord change me! I do like the forum and will try to get in on the questions as I can. I think I had lost my password so I put off logging on. Can I change my password so I can remember?
I think this is a great study and I think ALL wives should read this book. Maybe if I blog about it more, I will be able to participate more. Thanks, Hallee for persevering with us!
Hallee,
I am enjoying this study immensely and have had quite a bit of personal growth from it. I have been c&ping the questions to answer in my journal but due to a bunch of family stuff, haven’t had the time to come back and post….I will soon!! Thank you for your time and dedication to this study.
Blessings,
~Kerri
I agree with the previous posts from others. I think the study is wonderful, however, I don’t answer the questions online. Rather, I answer them in my study guide and ponder the readings independently. I speak for myself when I say I am an instant gratification girl. I think there seems to be a disconnect between having a *group* study, however, we are not able to discuss *live*. I really liked the old BZ way of logging in, entering the lobby, and moving over to the assigned DDC to speak with everyone at a designated time once a week. I think that keeps the topic fresh in one’s mind and it allows for open debate and discussion. I don’t know if there’s a way to implement that but I think, for me, I would gain even more from a conversational forum. I think the study choice is wonderful and I have learned a lot–some of which I question or don’t understand, but I think that’s good too. Thanks again for doing this Hallee.
I’m reading. (Shocking, I know.)
I’m just behind… as you can tell by the fact I’m just now responding! I read Chapter 3 (Finances, I think) and just haven’t responded to it… and haven’t gotten to 4 yet. I do enjoy the study and so need it. I would love if there were a little more interaction than just us posting lists of our responses to questions… but I also know that I haven’t taken the time to do this or post questions/comments I’ve had so I can’t so much expect others to! I love having the forum instead of responding in the comments… it feels a little “safer” to me for some reason. I agree with some others… I love that you put questions out each week because that helps me to think more about the chapter (the book I have does not have the study guide)… and I would also like us to have more interactions just about what we thought and how that applies to our marriages. I’ve never done an online bible study before so I’m not really sure what to expect from that compared to face-to-face studies I’ve done before.