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Course
Growing Where God Is Working
~13.5 Hours
As the church, our mission is to follow after God and his work.
2 instructors
About This Course
Has the state of your church’s growth and attendance left you feeling confused, frustrated, or like a failure? Markus Watson knows exactly what that feels like as he once walked through that path himself. What he realized was missing was the focus not on growth but on God’s call to join what God is doing in the world. As the church, our mission is to follow after God and his work. Join us through this course to learn more ways to discern and participate in God’s mission!
Learning Outcomes
- Articulate a post-Christendom understanding of shalom and Missio Dei
- Equip believers to live into their vocations and participate in God’s mission
- Practice listening actively so that the whole congregation can participate in God’s work in the world
- Implement a Vocational Connection Group in your church
Created in partnership with the Church Leadership Institute, which is part of the De Pree Center, and FULLER Equip.
- Spiritual Formation & Vocation or Calling
- Vocation & Calling
Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Where Did Everybody Go?
God Through Past, Present, and Future
3. Look Who’s Talking: From Outcast to Overseer
4. Luther’s Milkmaid: The Secular and the Sacred
5. Where Is the Pilot? Finding Christ in Every Situation
Vocational Connection Groups
6. Out and About (The Mission)
7. Planning Purposefully (The Method)
8. Learning Together (The Meeting)
Conclusion
9. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Markus Watson
Pastor and Author
Markus Watson has been in pastoral ministry for over twenty years, serving in several churches in southern California and northern Kentucky. In 2018, Markus started the Spiritual Life and Leadership podcast, which later became the official podcast for Fuller Seminary's Church Leadership Institute. Markus also hosts the Rhythms of Leadership podcast and is the author of Beyond Thingification: Helping Your Church Engage in God's Mission. You can find out more about Markus at www.markuswatson.com. Markus lives in San Diego with his wife, Robin, and three children, Micah, Macy, and Drew.
CLI
The Church Leadership Institute (CLI) is a consulting and coaching group, a laboratory of church leadership, and the “Harvard Business Review” of the church. While there are a number of good resources and consulting groups at work in the larger church today, the De Pree Center Church Leadership Institute brings four distinct aspects to this work: Convene: Through our alumni and partner organizations, we bring the diverse church together across denominational and cultural lines to address the largest questions and challenges for the widest possible learning. “We talk to people who don’t talk to each other.” Research: Nested in a graduate school, our resources and experiences are grounded and will continually be grounded in research. Ongoing research will enable us to continually learn and offer those learnings to the larger church. Reach: As a non-profit institution with a technology platform and international reach, we can raise money and serve churches that could never afford the expertise of consultant agencies and pour the money from our consulting services back into other congregations, thus strengthening the larger body of Christ Formation: As an institution of formational education, our experience and expertise is on the formation of the inner life, character, resilience, and wisdom necessary for leadership—both individuals and congregations as a whole.
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