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Ashland Theological Seminary ASHLAND THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AN IMPACT STUDY ON COMMITMENT TO OBEYING GOD’S VOICE THROUGH A SMALL GROUP STUDY OF ISRAEL’S WILDERNESS JOURNEY A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF ASHLAND THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MINISTRY BY JOHN SHEPPARD ASHLAND, OHIO NOVEMBER 13, 2020 Copyright © 2020, by John Sheppard All rights reserved ii To all, past present and future, who hear and reverberate his voice among the nations iii The work of grandparents is to transform the remembered past into present tense, in order that memory can be available and informative, authoritative, empowering, and summoning…The exodus narrative is indeed paradigmatic for the grandparental antidote to amnesia among the grandchildren. Walter Brueggemann (2009, 13) iv APPROVAL PAGE Accepted by the faculty and the final demonstration examining committee of Ashland Theological Seminary, Ashland, Ohio, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Ministry degree. __________________________________ _______________ Academic Advisor Date __________________________________ _______________ Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program Date v ABSTRACT The purpose of this project was to impact the participants’ commitment to obeying God’s voice through a Marysville, OH based small group blended learning study of Israel’s wilderness journey, conducted across seven sessions between February 23rd and June 7th, 2019. To measure its impact, participants completed pre and post-tests. This study most prominently impacted participants’ understanding of how God’s loving formation fuels our obedience to his voice. vi CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT OVERVIEW 1 2. BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL, AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS 26 3. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 67 4. DESIGN, PROCEDURE, AND ASSESSMENT 106 5. REPORTING THE RESULTS 119 6. SUMMARY AND REFLECTIONS 140 Appendix 1. PROPOSAL 167 2. ASSESSMENT TOOL 191 3. BIBLE STUDY QUESTIONS SAMPLE 196 REFERENCES 198 vii TABLES Table Page 1. Table 1. Project Goals by Degree of Change……………………………119 2. Table 2. Goal #4: God’s Loving Formation Fuels Our Obedience …….120 3. Table 3. Goal #1: Participants’ Understanding of Obeying God’s voice………………………………………………………………………… .124 4. Table 4: Goal #2: How God’s Actions fuel our obedience………………128 5. Table 5. Goal #5: Obeying God’s Voice on Behalf of His Creation…….132 6. Table 6. Goal #3: God Fuels Our Obedience by Making His Name Renown……………………………………………………………………….136 viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project and paper would have never happened were it not for the exhortation and encouragement from Sharon, my wife, and from Joel, our son. To Dr. Jack McKinney who taught me to appreciate the beauty of the Bible’s original languages. To Dr. Paul Pollard modeled scholarship, wisdom, and godliness. To Dr. Mike Stine who patiently and wisely guided me through writing this paper. To Dr. Alan Bevere who prompted new perspectives on forces shaping today’s churches. To Dr. Matt Bevere who proved to be a welcomed and willing conversation partner about many life and ministry topics. I miss our conversations. To Dr. Dawn Morton who firmly but gently nudged me forward through this project. To Dr. Daniel Hawk who expanded my vision of God fulfilling his promises. To Clancy Cruise who welcomed the idea of implementing this project within Marysville Grace and who continually encouraged me through it. ix CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT OVERVIEW David Fleer and Dave Bland recount a thirty-year-old conversation with a Rhetoric professor about the practical applications of public apology. This professor proved himself as a competent scholar in his field. Yet, when Fleer and Bland proposed analyzing the David and Bathsheba story as an example of public apology, their professor told them that he had never heard that story. Ten years later, while attending a Ph.D. course in narrative theory, their professor read aloud extensive sections from Mark's gospel. To Fleer's and Bland's surprise, several of their fellow students confessed that they were hearing those stories for the first time. Thus, Fleer and Bland discerned that even our culture's best educated people are becoming less familiar with biblical narratives. Even fellow believers sometimes demonstrate their amnesia by their inability to discern degrees of importance within Scripture concerning the large essential narratives intended to shape the ways we think and live. The exodus declares itself to be one of those narratives and the rest of Scripture treats it as such. What God does in Exodus establishes the trend for how God acts throughout history and for how he works today (Fleer and Bland 2009, 1-2). Purpose Statement and Research Question The purpose of this project was to impact the participants’ commitment to obeying God’s voice through a Marysville, OH based small group blended learning study of Israel’s wilderness journey. The research question was to what extent has a Marysville, OH based small group blended learning study of Israel’s 1 wilderness journey impacted the participants’ commitment to obeying God’s voice? Overview This project consisted of a Marysville, OH based small group blended learning study of Israel’s wilderness journey intended to impact the participants’ commitment to obeying God’s voice, conducted across seven sessions between February 23th and June 7th, 2020. To measure this project's impact, I identified five goals and developed three statements (truth claims) per goal, fifteen quantitative questions total. To measure participant responses to each of the fifteen statements I associated the questions with a 7-point Likert Scale ranging from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree. Before leading Session One I administered a pre-test which explored how participants perceived their own understanding of “obeying God’s voice,” the degree to which they understood the relationship between God’s actions in Israel’s wilderness journey and our obeying his voice, the degree to which participants understood the relationship between God making his name renown among the nations and our obeying his voice, the degree to which participants understood the relationship between God’s loving formation and our obeying his voice, as well as the degree to which participants understood the relationship between our choices to obey or disobey God’s voice and their impact on God’s creation. At the end of the seven study sessions, I administered a post-test to discern the impact which studying God’s actions in Israel’s wilderness journey 2 had on the participants’ commitment to obeying God’s voice. The post-test also included five qualitative questions. This project impacted this particular group’s collective verbal commitment to obeying God's voice. Though the participants pre-tests reflected slight to moderate agreement with the assessment’s quantitative questions before the study began, their post-test responses reflected moderate to strong agreement in (a collective difference of .9). Foundation What claims on our lives does the exodus narrative imagine? A central problem we face is that we are losing touch with God's fundamental story. Not only is our culture forgetting the Bible's stories faster than the church, our culture is busy inflicting amnesia by dismissing memory as a passive exercise in futility...Despite our disadvantaged milieu, we long for the reliable, identity forming memories that offer hope and provide courage during painful times...Since our preaching is an archive from which the congregation reconstitutes its essential identity, remembering is the preacher's duty. (Fleer and Bland 2009, 2-3) The following foundational sections establish this project's Personal, Biblical, Theological, Historical, and Contemporary Foundations. Personal Foundation In this Personal Foundation section, I discuss my own experience of committing to obeying God’s voice and how my study of the Israelites ’wilderness journey has aided my pursuit of fuller obedience. For much of twenty years I earned my living and supported my family in a role where my compensation was based solely on commissions paid after customers paid their invoices. During those years, I prayed regularly both for the Lord’s provision and for me to continually remember that my ability to survive and provide depended directly on his provision. We have experienced both times of significant physical blessing and times of lean income that have frequently moved me to prayer and reflection 3 seeking God's provision. I have had to wrestle firsthand with the questions, "Is God able and willing to sustain me?" and "Am I willing to trust him?" In 2006, my family sent me to Israel for my fortieth birthday, joining a study tour led by two Old Testament professors, an Archaeologist, and their undergraduate students. While in Israel, I became engaged in multiple unsolicited conversations about historical and geographical challenges related to the Israelites ’exodus and wilderness journey narratives and felt personally drawn to investigate these stories when I returned home. Fourteen years later, I feel both more connected to these materials than ever before, and equally passionate about the God they reveal, his reasons for creating, his plans for his world, his desires for people, and the incalculable depth and breadth of his love and care. Over the years, I have also come to increasingly appreciate the narrative shape which Exodus' writer(s) gave this story and the message it, too, conveys about God's sovereignty and transcendence. After a five-month departure from my eighteen-year position noted above, I took a hybrid position with this employer for which I now a receive both a base income and commission. However, even with a regular foundation to build on, rebuilding the momentum needed to recover financially took time, and frequently reminded me that we still depend just as much on the Lord's provision as we ever have. That reality never changes. Each day, we rise learning to trust his provision more than we did the day before.
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