Leader esource Purpose Statement

2. Leaderesource Purpose Statement Sunday School is a ministry strategy that exists to assist the church in accomplishing its God-given mission of making disciples. Leaderesource is designed to help you as a church leader in developing a disciple-making culture in your church through the Sunday School ministry.

3. Effective Sunday School for Today’s Church To effectively be the Body of Christ requires strategy and organization.  In this training session, you will explore the philosophy, strategy, and organization of an effective Sunday School for Today’s Culture.

4. Welcome to Effective Sunday School for Today’s Church Training slide #1

5. What is Community What is Community Define:

6. What is Community What is Community • Define: • Interconnected systems of society • °Geographic °Radical • °Professional °Religious • °Cultural °etc

7. What is Biblical Community? Acts 2:42-47 1 Corinthians 10:16 °Koinonia °Spiritual

8. Sunday School is…. Brainstorm words to help define Sunday School

9. What people think • Fellowship 40% • Study 46% • Prayer 5% • Evangelism 9%

10. An Effective Sunday School Community will: • Invite • To Jesus & Into Community • Connect • Prayer, Fellowship, Service, Missions • Discover • God’s Word, Discipleship

11. Sunday School is…. a community that exists to invite people into the family of faith, to connect them through relationships, and to help them discover God’s Word.

12. Who will be in your Bible community? Who will be in your Sunday School this Sunday: • a man whose wife just left him • a married couple that is struggling • a single who doesn’t want to be lonely anymore • a parent eaten up inside over a wayward child • a woman doubting the God she has trusted for years

13. Sunday School is…. a community that exists to invite people into the family of faith, to connect them through relationships, and to help them discover God’s Word.

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