Active Faithlife Groups?

Hi,

Can anyone recommend some good, active faithlife groups?

Topics of interest: Biblical Theology, Church Unity/Diversity, Church Planting, Biblical Languages.

I'd like to find a group with active theological debate and discussion.

I'm finding that faithlife groups are not easily discoverable only searchable - most groups I've found are one or two people.

Cheers,

John

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JT (alabama24)

I don't think you are going to find what you are looking for. Faithlife was primarily designed for real life groups. There are some other groups, but I don't think there is anything like what you are looking for. Out of curiosity: what were you hoping to find in an online community to help with a thesis paper?

John Goodman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/544197#Comment_544197

I wan't hoping to find anything to help with my paper but I was hoping to find people with similar interests who are studying similar texts...

John Goodman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/544197#Comment_544197

I get that it would work best with a real life group but few people in my real life groups have logos. That's why I've been exploring groups which are open and interest focused. I listed my interests including my thesis topic because someone may have said: 'there is such and such a group where people are debating about prayer, providence, election etc.' I would find it interesting to join such a discussion.

I'm really trying to work out how useful faithlife is or if it is useful at all? We have a group from our college with about 8 members and have used it to share some visual filters and vocab lists but that is basically it.

John

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/544202#Comment_544202

I'm also trying to work out how useful faithlife is or if it is useful at all?

At this point? I lean toward the later. There is potential, but not much substance. Personally, I think the social features of the forums is stronger for conversations than anything Faithlife provides.

mike

try http://www.christianforums.com/

have fun there..

John Goodman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/544216#Comment_544216

I think I'm being misunderstood... I should have probably made my title: how to make good use of faithlife groups? No worries though...

John Goodman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/544214#Comment_544214

I don't know how it would be in practice but I like the idea of a bible study group working through a reading plan together etc.

We did that in our church once, the interaction was mostly in home groups and with the teaching pastors blog.

Paula

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/544221#Comment_544221

Is this a online community

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/544202#Comment_544202

We have a group from our college with about 8 members and have used it to share some visual filters and vocab lists but that is basically it.

More Faithlife groups that primarily share stuff:

OT Quotes in the NT => https://faithlife.com/ot-quotes-in-nt/activity

Logos Visual Filters => https://faithlife.com/logos-visual-filters/activity

Logos Syntax Searching => https://faithlife.com/logos-syntax-searching/activity

Logos Collections => https://faithlife.com/logos-collections/activity

Keep Smiling [:)]

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/544303#Comment_544303

I don't really get involved in internet discussion very much. Pretty much all of my internet discussion on the Bible takes place in this forum. However, I did make a brief foray in a Faithlife group and I wasn't too impressed. For me it is a MAJOR design flaw for a discussion site to have a keystroke cap that seems to want to give Twitter a run for its money. For instance, this post would be close to maxing out right about now. How can a discussion site flourish with such an absurd limit? Answer is...it can't. As far as I am concerned, Faithlife is DOA. Plus, I don't really find it intuitive. If Logos decided to make Faithlife into an internet version of Proclaim, with a variety of cool interactive methods of sharing and conveying my Logos library output (i.e. Notes, etc.) in a way that maximized communication...THAT would be awesome. Faithlife ain't that...or anywhere close.

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/544285#Comment_544285

Welcome. [:)]

Is this a online community

Care to elaborate? What are you wanting to know about?

mike

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/544227#Comment_544227

I don't know how it would be in practice but I like the idea of a bible study group working through a reading plan together etc.

We did that in our church once, the interaction was mostly in home groups and with the teaching pastors blog.

Sorry John to disappoint you,

whenever we have a bible study, there's always gonna be a discussion, and when there's discussion there's debate .. and Logos forum doesn't allow debate (in which I disagree, i think its because Logos doesn't wanna pay someone to moderate the forum for debate. In fact, I could almost say that the people here do better job is solving problems than Logos' actual customer service. Shame on Logos, saving money at the expense of our time)

I think my link above would much better solution for ya.. even faithlife groups are very quite & slow.

Michael Kinch

I joined a few Faithlife groups. One of them is fairly active. I found the problem with the limited number of characters a problem as well. It seems to me that if you have very much to say, you need to create a webpage and point to it from the Faithlife group. I think Faithlife is ok for real life groups to send messages such as "We will meet at the church Wed. at 7:00." You could just send out an email or make some phone calls and it would be more effective though.