GC LEADER DEVELOPMENT
GOSPEL COMMUNITY LEADER DEVELOPMENT
Hi leaders,
While resources have previously been shared in the Community Group Leaders group in Church Center, we wanted this page to serve as a more centralized place for you to access resources and tools for ongoing development.
As mentioned in the support plan for GCs this year, we are experimenting with a “continuing education” type model, where you’ll be expected to engage in a certain amount of development for the year. There’s flexibility in how/when you do this, and various formats are available (live trainings, videos, podcasts, articles, etc.).
Our hope and prayer is not that you would find this burdensome, but that these tools/resources would be inspiring, encouraging, and motivating as you consider how to lead your Gospel Community and equip those in your group to be disciple-makers.
In considering what to focus on, you may want to consider areas of growth related to how we understand mission:
CONTINUING EDUCATION
New!
- March 16 2024 Training on Attachment. Download Audio and or Slide Deck
Tools
- Element’s GC Handbook (PDF)
- Missional Assessment Tool (For GC Members)
- Missional Assessment GC Leader Tool (GC Leaders Additional)
- Fruit to Root Exercise
- Gospel Shepherding: Listen for the Heart
- Leadership Development Plan (PDF)
- X-Ray Questions by David Powlison (PDF)
Webinars
- Decentralized Discipleship (1 hr): Listen to what we can learn from the global Church on discipleship in the everyday.
- Everyday Mission in the Future (1 hr): How will the Church engage with the world in the age of post-Christendom?
- Counseling in Community Training (~3 hours total among 3 parts): This training by Jon and Michelle covers how to move toward others’ hearts, conveying the love, truth, and compassion of Jesus.
- Saturate: Disciple-Making Workshop (2.5 hours)
- Disciple-Making Pathway (12-Part Video Series ~ 2 hours total): With each video in this series averaging about 10 minutes long, this series can easily be broken up over time. Jeff Vanderstelt uses Paul’s process laid out in Acts 13-14 as a model for discipleship. Topics include Gospel Foundation, Gospel Proclamation, and Everyday Rhythms—showing how discipleship can happen in everyday life in everyday relationships.
- PDF Here: https://saturatetheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/A-Pathway-for-Discipleship-.pdf
- #1: DEEPER Training – https://vimeo.com/697880166/05ebc3f036
- #2: Disciple-Making Pathway Overview – https://vimeo.com/697880369/b6fca5f9e7
- #3: Gospel Power & Purpose – https://vimeo.com/697880534/20355a4bba
- #4: Gospel Paradigm – https://vimeo.com/697880721/78c6eec000
- #5: Gospel Identity – https://vimeo.com/697880813/ec57211b22
- #6: Jesus as Hero – https://vimeo.com/697880949/f8491e3855
- #7: Listening to Others’ Stories – https://vimeo.com/697881074/ffc1ceea54
- #8: Fruit to Root – https://vimeo.com/697881293/506c73d4fc
- #9: BLESS Rhythms – https://vimeo.com/697881410/c14e956d4b
- #10: Gospel Identity in Everyday Rhythms – https://vimeo.com/697881553/d1e8da55a1
- #11: Listening to God – https://vimeo.com/697881678/89c8038c04
- #12: Reading God’s Word – https://vimeo.com/697881773/b825e6a515
PODCASTS
- Element’s Leading Together Podcast.
- Kingdom Hospitality by Tony Merida (42 min): This Austin Stone sermon talks about the biblical basis for true hospitality and the importance of table fellowship—all of which can take place in the context of Gospel Community!
- Rethinking Church through Micro-Churches as Missional Communities by Lucas Pulley (1 hr): This Theology in the Raw episode discusses how a network of micro-churches has contextualized the Gospel across various landscapes and populations, resulting in organic, vibrant church-planting.
- How Discipleship Strengthens the Church (46 min): In this episode of The Gospel Coalition podcast, four women discuss the importance of relational discipleship and offer some guidelines on how to personally implement such practices.
- How We Multiply by Andy Kampman (40 min): This message from Austin Stone not only covers Mark 4:14-20, but offers extremely practical tips for reaching others, inviting them to study the Word, and cultivating discipleship.
- Sharing Your Faith Without Fear by David Platt (43 min): David preaches on Acts 18:1-17, talking about the importance of mission and the confidence that comes from understanding the power and sovereignty of God.
VIDEOS
- Developing Apprentice Leaders (12 min): This video by Jeff Vanderstelt offers some practical guidance on what to look for in potential leaders and how to equip them.
- Living With Intentionality (10 min): This video by Jayne Vanderstelt explores what it can look like to seek opportunities to live on mission every day.
- Four Idols Four Truths (“The 4 Gs”) (7 min): This video by Missio Dei explores the 4 common categories of idols and how 4 aspects of God’s nature speak to those places within our heart.
BLOGS/ARTICLES
- Why the Gospel Community is Essential to Understanding the Gospel by Trevin Wax
- Loving Others as Saints, Sufferers, & Sinners by Michael R. Emlet
- 5 Myths About Discipleship by Jonathan K. Dodson
- How to talk With Someone About Sin by Edward T. Welch
BOOKS
- Called Together: A Guide to Forming Missional Communities by Jonathan K. Dodson & Brad Watson:
- Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change by Paul David Tripp:
- Gospel Fluency Handbook: A Practical Guide to Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life by Jeff Vanderstelt & Ben Connelly:
- The Gospel Comes With a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World by Rosaria Butterfield
BAPTISM INFORMATION DOCUMENTS
ELEMENT’S MISSION
To Glorify God by teaching and living out the Scriptures, transforming community into Gospel Community, and planting churches.
