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Course
Formation for Planters
~18 Hours
In this Formation for Planters course, you’ll learn how even busy church planters can find rhythms of abiding in Christ with time-tested spiritual practices.
Tim Morey
About This Course
How can church planters be spiritually formed to not only survive but to thrive as they join God’s mission in the world? Answer: by developing a missional spirituality—an understanding and experience of the deep and abiding connection between being sent to do God’s will and being nourished by God’s provision. All too often in church planting, these two things feel separated or even opposed to one another. Cultivating a missional spirituality is learning to flourish with God while doing God’s work. In this Formation for Planters course, you’ll learn how even busy church planters can find rhythms of abiding in Christ, including time-tested spiritual practices such as silence and sabbath, as well as unexpected practices such as self-awareness and exercise.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify potential areas of personal spiritual malnourishment and the consequences that arise from ignoring spiritual wellbeing
- Assess the current state of your own spiritual formation
- Describe and experiment with five practices of missional spirituality
- Develop a personalized set of practices (called a Rule of Life) to grow in faith and formation with the Holy Spirit
This course counts towards the Church Planting Certificate.
Created in partnership with the Church Planting Initiative and FULLER Equip.
- Church Planting
- Lead Pastor
- Leadership
- Church & Ministry
- Spiritual Formation & Vocation or Calling
- Spiritual Formation
Introduction
1. Getting Started
Formation Is Your Foundation
2. Why Formation Matters
3. Prioritizing Your Own Formation
4. What Is a Missional Spirituality?
Cultivating a Missional Spirituality: The 5 S's
5. Silence, Solitude & Lament: Part 1
6. Silence, Solitude & Lament: Part 2
7. Self-Awareness: Part 1
8. Self-Awareness: Part 2
9. Sabbath-Keeping
10. Stewarding Our Bodies
11. Sharing Our Faith
Conclusion
12. A Missional Rule of Life
13. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Tim Morey
Church Planter, D.Min, M.Div
Tim planted Life Covenant Church in Torrance, CA, and Life has planted five churches in the US and dozens of churches in Mozambique. He wrote Embodying Our Faith and Sent to Flourish and is currently writing The Spiritually Formed Church Planter. He served on the national church planting team for the Evangelical Covenant Church, is an adjunct professor at Fuller Seminary, and is on the Advisory Board for Fuller's Church Planting Program.
