Unlock Urban – Cooking the book: A Bible overview with a difference!
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Each week a recipe provides the framework as participants explore their life experiences then connect them with God’s story.
Free downloadable material from Unlock-Urban.org.uk. The Cooking the Book resource has 10 sessions:
Recipe for each session. Suggestions for accompanying sound tracks.
This review centres around the Cooking the Book resource, but there are others on the website which cover a vast range, from parenting to baptism to film to Christmas to books in the Bible … All are learner centred and designed to be accessible to urban situations. Take a look at www.unlock-urban.org.uk
Adult, youth, Enquirers, Beginners, small group
Free, downloadable.
Clearly-produced downloadable A4 sheets, which include great visuals, and creative, colourful participant's cards. Innovative resources.
Clearly explained in the introduction: based on Unlock's methodology of: 'Unlocking real life stories of urban people, start with the group telling stories from their real life experience →Revealing Good News of the Down to Earth Christ, The real life stories are compared to similar situations in the Bible →Releasing life changing skills and confidence, Change happens as a result of linking real life experience with the Bible. This change often leads to action among others →Leading to more experience, What we learn now is learnt for life and changes us. We also learn to keep reflecting!'
Easy to use A4 sheet of instructions, including suggestions for visuals, sound track, icebreaker, cooking activity, unlocking starter questions, The Book link to the Bible written out, and take away thoughts. Adaptability and flexibility strongly encouraged.
A leader with enthusiasm for making a group work in this innovative way – a bit of multi-tasking required!
Neat take away postcards with picture on one side and on the other, the recipe, topic title, relevant Bible quotation, and a few questions.
Up to the leader.
Printing the postcards, preparing the music, cooking activity and any visuals.
Good, inspiring website at www.unlock-urban.org.uk
Contemporary and flexible.
Integral to whole session, with cooking and talking, especially encouragement to tell own story.
Designed for low-literacy groups, for enquirers, but would be fun for many. Strongly learner-centred.
Although these resources originated from urban situations and challenges, they would be adaptable for many youth and outreach groups. Lots of different topics included on the website.
Talking about one's story encouraged, plus together working out how that interacts with the biblical material.
Each topic has a brief Bible passage with the relevant material or story.
Brief but to the point Bible material upon which the topic is based. Option to tell the story rather than read it from the Bible.
The question following the Bible story is always focused on connecting it with the stories the participants have told themselves. The Take away takes this further into possible life changes as a result.
Evangelical.
Creative and inspirational approach to connecting biblical principles and stories to those of the participants.
Really good questions that would stimulate chat and lead in naturally to the Bible input.
The cooking theme would create a very relaxed atmosphere for talking about God to people whose knowledge of or about him may be low.
A very ‘real' and down to earth resource, based on learner experience to date, and creating great opportunities for talking about them, and growing through the biblical input.
Running Unlock sessions would be great personal evangelism.
Dependent on the topic – see the range at Unlock-Urban.
Dependent on the topic – see the range at Unlock-Urban.
Dependent on the topic – see the range at Unlock-Urban.