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Growing an Engaged Church: Tools for Spiritual Health and Connection

Explore two powerful tools, Living Your Spiritual Gifts and Connection Circles, to promote spiritual health and engagement in your congregation. Discover how clear expectations, gift-based ministry, and small group ministry can foster a thriving and engaged church community.

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Growing an Engaged Church: Tools for Spiritual Health and Connection

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  1. Session Three: The “Engaged” Church If you can see this, you're connected correctly! We'll begin at the top of the hour. In the meantime, please use the “flipchart” for some informal conversation as people gather. You might begin by typing your name and location into the white space at the bottom of the box. (a friendly reminder – you were invited to fill out the Spiritual Gifts Inventory prior to our meeting this evening) Notes & recording from last week: www.united-in-learning.com/sanguin-notes Welcome

  2. Introductions Re-introducing the presenters Opening Prayer

  3. Today's Agenda Growing an “Engaged” Chuch Two tools from Bruce's congregation to yours: • Living Your Spiritual Gifts • Connection Circles Manual

  4. Small group discussion (5 mins) Please introduce yourselves to each other (name, location, brief description of your congregation) How would you measure the “spiritual health” of a congregation?

  5. Albert L Winseman:Growing an Engaged Church Spiritual health is indicated by four “outcomes.” • Life satisfaction

  6. Albert L Winseman:Growing an Engaged Church Spiritual health is indicated by four “outcomes.” • Life satisfaction • Inviting others to attend

  7. Albert L Winseman:Growing an Engaged Church Spiritual health is indicated by four “outcomes.” • Life satisfaction • Inviting others to attend • Serving (volunteering)

  8. Albert L Winseman:Growing an Engaged Church Spiritual health is indicated by four “outcomes.” • Life satisfaction • Inviting others to attend • Serving (volunteering) • Generosity

  9. Two Major findings 1. “Engaged” members score significantly higher on these outcomes than not engaged and disengaged 2. Spiritual practice has a positive impact on the outcomes, but is not as powerful as engagement.

  10. Factors That Promote “Engagement” Clear answers to the following questions: • What do I get?

  11. Factors That Promote “Engagement” Clear answers to the following questions: • What do I get? • What do I give?

  12. Factors That Promote “Engagement” Clear answers to the following questions: • What do I get? • What do I give? • Do I belong?

  13. Factors That Promote “Engagement” Clear answers to the following questions: • What do I get? • What do I give? • Do I belong? • How do I grow?

  14. Rick Warren'sCircles of Engagement

  15. Small Group Discussion:How would people in your congregation answer these questions? What could you do to help them be clearer about their answers? • What do I get? • What do I give? • Do I belong? • How do I grow?

  16. Summary • Clear Expectations of Membership • Start Gift-Based Ministry • Start Small Group Ministry

  17. Small Group discussion We asked you to fill out the “inventory” for yourself prior to tonight's workshop How did it feel to fill this out for yourself? Surprises? Reactions? Imagine using something like this in your congregation ... what would work? What would you need to adapt?

  18. A Tool for Engagement:Living your Spiritual Gifts Flows from Two Foundational Principles: • Ministry anywhere, anytime, by anybody • Gift-based ministry

  19. A Tool for Engagement:Living your Spiritual Gifts The Evolution of the Tool • From authority resting in external inventory • To a process of self-inquiry-in-community (Transcended, yet included, the inventory)

  20. A Tool for Engagement:Living your Spiritual Gifts • Discovery: Group Session Individual Reflection Interview with facilitator

  21. A Tool for Engagement:Living your Spiritual Gifts • Discovery: Group Session Individual Reflection Interview with facilitator • Discerning: Group session to discern ministry

  22. A Tool for Engagement:Living your Spiritual Gifts • Discovery: Group Session Individual Reflection Interview with facilitator • Discerning: Group session to discern ministry • Commissioning: Worship Service

  23. A Tool for Engagement:Connection Circles Structure: 1 ½ hours, 10-12 weeks

  24. A Tool for Engagement:Connection Circles Structure: 1 ½ hours, 10-12 weeks • Check in…When did you feel connected/disconnected from Spirit this past week?

  25. A Tool for Engagement:Connection Circles Structure: 1 ½ hours, 10-12 weeks • Check in…When did you feel connected/disconnected from Spirit this past week? • Sacred Conversation using sermon from past Sunday

  26. A Tool for Engagement:Connection Circles Structure: 1 ½ hours, 10-12 weeks • Check in…When did you feel connected/disconnected from Spirit this past week? • Sacred Conversation using sermon from past Sunday • Prayer

  27. A Tool for Engagement:Connection Circles • Have a dedicated leader of Connection Circles

  28. A Tool for Engagement:Connection Circles • Have a dedicated leader of Connection Circles • Facilitator and Host

  29. A Tool for Engagement:Connection Circles • Have a dedicated leader of Connection Circles • Facilitator and Host • Train Facilitators and Support

  30. A Tool for Engagement:Connection Circles • Have a dedicated leader of Connection Circles • Facilitator and Host • Train Facilitators and Support • Use semester system

  31. A Tool for Engagement:Connection Circles Congregational Impact • Builds common culture (gets people “on-purpose”) • Builds sense of belonging • Mission component (each circle has a mission project)

  32. Small Group discussion If you were to build small groups in your church that used sermons as their resource ... What would you need to include in the sermons?

  33. Next Week Session Four: Leadership Fundamental States of Leadership Four Leadership Capacities Tending the Flame

  34. Homework for next week Reflect on a time when you exercised exceptional leadership, and be prepared to describe this. What made this work so well? 1.1If you could sasdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfififififififiifdfdfdfdfdfdfIf fffffff…..

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