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Course
Preaching in a Changing World
~10 Hours
In Preaching in a Changing World, you will explore the process of how you, as pastor and preacher, can facilitate bringing change to your congregation.
2 instructors
About This Course
Do you struggle with how to address your church’s challenges through your preaching? Bringing about change within your church community is a sensitive and complicated process that can be a challenge to navigate. In this Preaching in a Changing World course, you will explore the process and dynamics of bringing change to your congregation and how you, as pastor and preacher, can facilitate these changes. It will help you identify potential preaching obstacles and draw from biblical examples in order to better connect with your congregation. This will help guide you in preparing sermons that holistically address the complexity of implementing change in the life of your community, emphasizing the positive effects. Join Steve Norman as you find ways to become a better preacher and enact compelling, long-lasting change in your church!
Learning Outcomes
- Identify potential personal preaching obstacles to overcome for a preaching experience that leads to congregational change
- Identify and describe biblical examples as templates/models for preaching change
- Prototype next sermons, sermon series, and/or strategic digital communications to address the coming changes for your church
Created in partnership with the Church Leadership Institute, which is a part of the De Pree Center, and FULLER Equip.
- From the Pulpit
- Leadership
- Lead Pastor
1. Introduction
Lessons
2. Preaching and Change
3. Obstacles to Change
4. Biblical Case Studies
5. Planning for Preaching Change
Conclusion
6. Conclusion
7. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Steve Norman
Pastor, Author, and Director of Communications
Steve Norman is a pastor, preacher, and director of communications for Winning At Home, a Christian counseling center in the Grand Rapids, MI area. He holds a MAGL and D.Miss from Fuller Seminary. Steve has served local churches for over 20 years and has preached as a youth pastor, a teaching pastor, a church planter, and a lead pastor. He has written for Christianity Today, Preaching Today, and the Covenant Companion, and hosts a series of webinars on preaching with Preaching Today. He is also the author of The Preacher as Sermon: How Who You Are Shapes What They Hear.
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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