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What does it mean to have a kingdom-minded church?
As church leaders, we all want our churches to grow and to serve the unique needs of our communities. But how do we keep our desire for flourishing without drifting from our church’s ultimate mission and purpose?
As church leaders, we all want our churches to grow and to serve the unique needs of our communities. But how do we keep our desire for flourishing without drifting from our church’s ultimate mission and purpose?
While metrics like numerical growth and community impact are important, we can best determine our church’s health and effectiveness by looking at our faithfulness to God’s kingdom agenda. Whether your church is booming or experiencing a lull, it’s never a bad time to align or re-align your mission and purpose with the mission God has given us.
Why this course?
In this course, Dr. Evans will use his pastoral experience to teach what it means to have a healthy, properly functioning local church. With years of experience preaching and teaching on God’s kingdom and its principles, Dr. Evans will help you home in on God’s design and desire for your church and show how God’s kingdom agenda can be foundational to your church’s mission and purpose.
Assess the Health of Your Church
Sometimes, churches attempt to solve foundational challenges with surface-level solutions. Dr. Evans will help you assess your church’s spiritual health and address any core issues that limit the effectiveness of your church and its ministry.
Align Your Vision with God’s Agenda
We all have grand hopes for our churches and what we want them to accomplish. But to be faithful leaders, our vision must line up with God’s mission and agenda. Dr. Evans will give you eight checkpoints to ensure that your vision for the church aligns with God’s.
Operate with Kingdom Priorities
Our priorities should always be rooted in Jesus’s commission to make disciples and in his command to love God and others. Dr. Evans will explain that when we operate with kingdom priorities, we impact our culture and show what it means to belong to a better kingdom.
At the end of this course, you will...
Know what it means to have a kingdom-minded church.
Have practical steps for cultivating unity in your congregation.
Identify whether your church is growing spiritually.
Understand ways to impact the culture through your church.
Included in this course:
Eight 10–15-minute teaching videos
with Dr. Tony Evans.
Discussion questions
to lead team conversations or reflect on your own.
24 practical exercises
to apply the principles in your church.
Learn about God’s kingdom agenda and how to align your church with it.
Implement four biblical principles to help your church operate with kingdom effectiveness.
Develop tangible skills and integrity of heart to lead others with a kingdom mindset.
Learn practical steps for working toward unity in your church.
Distinguish between discipleship that prioritizes making a decision for Christ and discipleship that leads people to surrender as kingdom disciples.
Learn to help your congregants develop their gifts and give them opportunities to serve in the church.
Understand how and in what ways the church forms Christians into faithful followers of Christ.
Tony Evans
Dr. Tony Evans is a preacher, author, and former pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas. He is the founder of The Urban Alternative and has written over 150 books, including The Kingdom Agenda, Oneness Embraced, and Victories in Spiritual Warfare.
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You can use this course on your own or with other leaders at your church. The written curriculum is geared toward group discussion, but it can also be used individually.
In this eight-session course, Dr. Tony Evans provides a check-up for assessing the health of your church and aligning its mission and purpose with God’s kingdom agenda.
Yes, this course is included in a RightNow Pastors+ subscription. Click here for more information.
Plan for an hour to an hour and a half to go through each session, especially if you’re going through the content in a group. The videos in this course range from ten to fifteen minutes, and the discussion questions and activities will likely take up the rest of your meeting time.
This course is eight sessions long. Feel free to cover the sessions in increments that make the most sense for you and your leadership team. For some, it might work best to go through one session a week; for others, it might be better to cover one session a month. We do not recommend doubling up on sessions.
In its 40-year history, Barna Group has conducted more than two million interviews over the course of thousands of studies and has become a go-to source for insights about faith and culture, leadership and vocation, and generations. Barna Group has worked with thousands of businesses, nonprofit organizations and churches across the U.S. and around the world.
Barna is an independent, privately held, nonpartisan organization based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Nashville, Tennessee; Ventura, California; and Atlanta, Georgia.
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