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Sunday’s sermon, opened at small group.

Sojourn turns your church’s sermon into a sermon study for you and your small group. A quiet place in the middle of your busy week to reflect on the passages preached and questions asked.

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A sermon study in Sojourn in Personal, with its theme, the passages preached, and the questions to explore
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Back to Sunday, any day.

Each week’s message lands in your My Church tab, from your pastor’s pulpit to your pocket, ready for your small group.

Read
Explore more deeply.

Go beneath what was preached, with angles you might not have heard from the pulpit. Bring what you find to group.

Reflect
Sit with your pastor’s words.

Unrushed, on your own time. Make space for Sunday in the middle of the week, then talk it through with your small group.

Inside a sermon study

Sunday’s sermon, ready for your small group.

Here’s how a sermon study gets used, from your first read during the week to the conversation on group night.

Before group

  1. 1

    Start with the passages.

    The guide opens with one question about Sunday, then the passages you’ll read together and a few things to look for.

    A sermon study's opening question, a few things to look for as you read, and the passages preached, each with a Read button
  2. 2

    Read the whole chapter.

    Tap Read and the chapter opens with the preached verses highlighted. Ask about them right underneath.

    Matthew 6 open with the preached verse highlighted, and a question about it answered in the thread below
  3. 3

    The questions your group will discuss.

    The same questions you’ll talk through on group night, about the text your pastor preached.

    Three numbered discussion questions, each with Watch this section and Explore this question beneath it
  4. 4

    Hear that part again.

    Watch the exact part of the sermon where your pastor talks about each question.

    The service video playing inside a discussion question, at the point in the sermon where it was preached
  5. 5

    Think it through before you go.

    Open a question and talk it over. Rest assured that your messages are private and stored only on your phone.

    A discussion question open as its own thread, answered with the passages it draws on
  6. 6

    Print it and write in it.

    Print the guide and jot your answers as you go. The app is there when you want to dig deeper. Bring your filled-in copy to group.

    The study's menu, with Print guide and Print with leader notes

For the leader

  1. 7

    Turn on Leader view.

    Leader view adds cues for running the room, like when to give a few minutes of quiet and how to point the group back to the passages.

    Leader view switched on, with a short cue for the leader under the opening question, the passages and the discussion
  2. 8

    Notes to help you guide the discussion.

    Each question gets a note on what the sermon said, with help for when the conversation wanders.

    Leader view under a discussion question: what the sermon said, what to do if the group gets sidetracked, and passages if it wants more

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Review before sermons go live

Each sermon study waits as a draft until you approve it.

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Add a note to each sermon study

A message from your pastor, set above the passages in their own words.

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Tools for your congregation

QR codes for the bulletin and the screen. Take them directly to this week’s sermon study.

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Get insights into how members engage

Lightweight, anonymous numbers, like how many opened a sermon study. Never who.

Your words, first thing they read.

A sermon study opens with a note from you: why this passage, what to sit with this week. Then the scripture that was preached, in full.

VSunday, September 13 · Vineyard Cincinnati Church
Relationships | Week 3: Friendship
A note from your pastor

Before you read, think of one friend who has stuck with you. Then read about David and Jonathan, and ask who you’re that friend for.

1 Samuel 18:1–4 Proverbs 18:24 John 15:12–15
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