Journaling with SOAP:
Keeping a journal as you go through The Goal is Whole studies will often help a deeper engagement with the content, and allow you to go back and recap. Critically, it also gives you contributions you can have to hand to share with the group at the meet-ups. Shared revelation between group members massively increases growth in the group. Flourishing in a body identity is essential for the INN to form.
Try to allocate at least 20 mins for your personal daily prayer time. You can start by reading or listening to the study for the day, or integrate it part-way through or at the end of the prayer track. Journal your experience using the S.O.A.P. outline:
Study: Read/listen to the devotion study.
Observe: Consider the main point(s) that stand out or make an impact on you personally, and note these down.
Apply: Think about ways to apply whatever it is that has impacted you. Increased knowledge is good, but where it calls for a lifestyle response, it is much more powerful to act on what you have seen, so that it can become established in your life. Jesus urged building on rock, not sand. In His exhortation both those building on rock and those building on sand heard His word - what made the rock-builders different was they also acted on what they heard! (Check HERE)
Pray: Pray a brief prayer of response or commitment around what you have received from the content. Note this prayer response in your journal.
After using SOAP on the day's content, conclude the rest of the prayer track!