[DaveSAE]

The group I co-lead in my chapter was pretty awesome. We called it IBC - Investigative Bible Conversation or Informal Bible Conversation depending on who you asked. We met every Sunday night for about an hour. Basically it worked like this - it was lead by a few guys who were pretty solid in their faith, and one man from Navigators who almost became a non-student initiate.

Members could come at their leisure and ask whatever questions they had. We basically sold it like this - there are a lot of important decisions we have to make in our lives. Your choice of faith is the most important of all of those - after all, what you choose or don't choose has eternal implications. Meanwhile, there is a lot of bad information out there about what the Bible has to say about certain issues. So come and ask any question you want - no issue is sacred here. We'll discuss it as brothers, but most importantly we'll open up the Bible and find out what it actually has to say. That way, you can at least make an educated decision whether or not to pursue Christianity.

We started with a few guys and just knocked on doors in our house 10 minutes beforehand inviting guys down. By the end of the semester we had 35 of our 48 man chapter attend at least once. One week we had 24 people show and we had to find a much bigger room :-)

The bonuses of it all were that conversation in the house turned from "who did who last night" to "so what do you think about this issue?" Politics, religion, issues that affect us - the meaningful stuff was common fare. It was a refreshing semester.

We also lead Bible studies that were mostly alpha-style discussions (basics of the faith), and hot topics like sex, addiction and depression. Those drew lots of great, deep conversation.

Hope that helps!