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Creative Discipleship Summaries
Need an idea to change things up?
Check out these creative ways leaders across Canada are walking
with people on the Journey of Grace.
We gathered 24 volunteers, each offering one hour at the church to seek God for our faith family and pray for our community. Click picture for details.
On Easter morning, families arrive early and follow a guided drive-through route featuring live and visual stations of the cross, helping them enter the story of Jesus’ final week before celebrating the resurrection together. (click picture for details)
The County Prayer Tour is an opportunity for area churches and leaders to pray together as the Body of Christ for our neighbours. It can take place over several weeks hosted in different communities. (click picture for details.
As we walk with Jesus, we must learn to see, hear and experience through ordinary things in ordinary ways. These exercises give tools to build this practice into a habit. Click the picture for details.
For 66 weeks, involve people in the church by asking for a 3-minute audio recording that summarizes one book of the Bible. This encourages people to dive into the Word, to understand how different parts of the Bible are interconnected and to create a template for future learning together. Click on the picture for details.
A monthly prayer guide that leads the church family through daily rhythms of Scripture meditation, guided prayer, silent listening, and shared prayer requests to deepen life with God to help people experience prayer in fresh and diverse ways.
This resource shows how the church community participates in worship by using their diverse gifts in weekly services—from leading prayers and songs to serving behind the scenes—helping the faith community to grow together in fellowship and deepen worship of God.
Discipleship Survey
This survey helps individuals reflect on their spiritual growth by exploring key areas of discipleship— relationship with Christ, love for God and neighbour, and understanding of life with Him—while offering space to consider what has shaped (or hindered) that growth over the past year.
This outreach experience takes the whole congregation into the community for a whole day to do service projects for those in need. Gives opportunity for compassionate outreach, meeting your neighbours and working with civic leaders in the area. Click picture for details.
A weekly after program designed to make disciples. See the need. Create a plan. Recruit leaders. Ask God for children to come. Train volunteers. Communicate opportunity in community. Seek the Holy Spirit's guidance. Click picture for details.
This 47-Day video devotional series provided a way for our church family to dive into Scripture in the lead up to Easter. Each participant received passages to read and study, and then choose what they wanted to share. A short video was made to share with the whole congregation of their devotional.
When a person meets Jesus, begin the discipleship journey with a new believe by using Chic Shaver's Basic Bible Studies for New and Growing Christians. Click picture for more details.
Willing participants memorize a chapter of Scripture that is a part of a Book study for a given year, then asked to recite the Scripture for the congregation. It encourages people to be deeply invested in the Word of God. Click the picture for more details.
Gently introduce the community to the story of Jesus' birth by inviting people to come experience the sights and sounds of a market street, a manger in a stable, minstrel music, all to show how important of a story the birth of the Christ-child is to re-tell. Find out more details by clicking the picture.
Instead of a verse-by-verse analysis Bible study, prepare and have the study members read an entire chapter. Use discussion time to highlight the bigger picture of the passage rather than minute detail. Click picture for details.
Pare down other elements of a worship gathering to focus on praying together. Ensure that even newcomers understand what will happen with early explanations. Use a regular pattern (such a A.C.T.S. -adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication) to keep prayers going.
Create a space in a common area to put short phrases that remind congregation of what they have learned together in previous worship experiences. Click the picture for details.
Invite church leaders to commit to a set of practices to help them grow together and keep them rooted in Christ. Encourage mutual accountability and trust to grow, and with time, encourage leaders to bring other faith family members to join. Click picture for details.
Encourage congregation members to use their gifts to write lyrics and music to share. Get more ideas by clicking picture above.
The idea of living life in a way that one is discipling another through every day experiences and spending time together. Learn more by clicking the above picture.
Brainstorm together what you will learn together by asking the question "“What do you think every follower of Christ just ought to know?” Learn more by clicking the picture above.
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