Seven Steps to

Start a Bible Study Group in YOUR COMMUNITY.

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A Lamppost Bible Study is built around one simple idea: meet people where they are, and help them grow in Biblical Community through the rhythms of their everyday life. It’s flexible, practical, and intentionally designed to reach people who might never sign up for a traditional Bible Study.


Here are 7 steps to create a Lamppost Study in your community.

1. choose your ministry lens

Each Lamppost Ministry has a "lens," a context or hobby that shapes how you experience our studies. You simply choose the lens that best fits the group of people you're gathering. The teaching is the same but the application varies. Our different ministry lenses are below. To learn more about each, simply click on the logo below.

2. meet each week

Participants read the chapters prescribed and journal their thoughts each week in the study guide on their own. When you come together as a group it's a time to encourage, reflect, pray, and lift each other up. 

3. gathering place

Lamppost studies aren’t locked to a classroom. You can meet:

 

On a walking trail

Around a table

In someone’s backyard

At a coffee shop

At the church gym

In a church Sunday School Room or Fellowship Hall

 

The location reinforces the lens. A walking group can literally walk while they discuss the questions. A table group can have dinner parties. An outdoors group can meet on a porch or trailhead. The environment becomes part of the discipleship. 

4. foster real conversation

Lamppost groups aren’t built on one person teaching; they’re built on everyone engaging. The leader’s job is simply to:

  • Ask the questions
  • Encourage participation
  • Share briefly from their own life
  • Keep the conversation grounded in Scripture

Anyone can lead a Lamppost group because the material does the heavy lifting.

5. emphasize accountability

Each week challenge participants to live out what they learned. This could be:

  • Visit someone on the "margins"
  • Speak to someone new
  • A family meal with no distractions
  • A technology detox
  • An intentional conversation
  • A prayer exercise

Lamppost is about actionable discipleship, not just content intake.

6. use the community videos

Each week includes a short video with with our own encouragement and humor. Groups can watch these videos together at the beginning of class to set the tone and get those conversations started.

 

These videos can be found via the QR code at the end of each week's study guide section.

 

Not sure how to use a QR Code? Just hold your camera app up to the QR code like you are going to take a photo of it and select the link that pops up.

7. Keep It Simple

Lamppost studies work best when they’re welcoming, light-hearted, and relational. There is a blend of Scripture, story, practical steps, and community. You don’t need to be a theologian—you just need to care about people.

 

In short:
A Lamppost Bible Study helps your church foster biblical community by connecting spiritual growth to everyday life. You choose a lens, gather people in a fitting context, use the weekly resources, and let God use simple rhythms to grow deep relationships.

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