A Conversation Guide Christianity after Religion

• Encourages congregations to discern and identify essential questions important to guiding how they discover, experiment, and live into deeper and new forms of ministry and mission.

A Words list of feelings related to conflict

• Misunderstandings and Hurt Relationships — a list of “feeling” words to help identify the feelings we may have when faced with a difficult conversation.

Additional Living the Mission Prayer Resources Packet

• Additional resources that accompany the Living the Mission Prayer as a Way of Life Guide.

Assessing Your Team Climate

• A survey for team members to assess the qualities needed for an effective team climate.

Assessing your team communication

• A survey for team members to assess their behaviors and skills needed for effective team communication.

at-a-glance-guide

• An at a glance card to help you decide how and when to have a difficult conversation.

Dwelling in the word - isaiah 58:3-12

• To listen to God and to one another to hear and discover in new ways God’s direction by reading scripture and posing questions.

Evaluating our true capacity

• Thinking about how we engage in mission in a way that is sustainable and leads to wellbeing.

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GATHERING AROUND THE MISSION PRAYER

• A way to come together for spiritual and relational encounter around the rhythm of Awaken, Risk, and Bless.

getting started with experiments

• Suggestions for how to “risk something new” through envisioning and launching experiments.

Going Deeper in Discovering our Unity and Diversity

• How do we develop a deeper understanding of one another? How do we move beyond a surface level recognition of our individuality to a genuine appreciation of our diversity?

Making Decisions as a Team

• A process to ensure all voices are heard and the highest level of consent is reached in decision making.

Our Changing context for mission

• A brief overview of U.S. societal trends and implications for mission.

Pastors & Leaders Field Gude

• If you are a new pastor or new to a Pastor and Leadership Team this is a great place to start.

Planning for Encounter in Worship

• Planning for Encounter in Worship & Understanding Your Congregation’s Spiritual Type

Panes of Perspective

• To design and plan activities, ministry, and mission by use of current trends that impact ministry and mission.

Practicing Prophetic Imagination in Community

• The Prophetic Imagination - An Introduction

Receive Embody and Share Christ's Peace

• The intent of this paper is to stimulate conversation and live into ways we receive, embody, and share Christ’s peace in a changing world. It is not the definitive word but part of an ongoing exploration of how we make the living Word tangible in every new context.

Reflection Guide: Who is Jesus to me booklet

• This guide provides space to record reflections about “Who is Jesus to me?” It also includes six scripture-based missional practices, each offering different ways to receive and encounter the living Christ.

Risking Something New Lyrics

• Risking Something New Video Lyrics

Song “Who I Am”

Lyrics by Dave Heinze and Ron Harmon
Music by Dave Heinze
© 2014 Community of Christ. Permission granted
to print for congregational use.

Scripture in community of Christ

• Scripture statement in the Community of Christ

Shared Leadership Basics for Congregations 

• Why Utilize a Pastor Leadership Team?

Sharing Community of Christ an Exploration

• The intent of this document is to help assist an individual or group articulate an invitation to Christ’s peace and to the Community of Christ.

Sharing and Discovering our Congregational Story

• This resource is designed to help us draw out our congregational story, to assess where we are today, and to identify some key questions that may frame where God calls us into the future.

Thirteen Trends

• Thirteen Trends and Forces Affecting the Future of Faith Formation in a Changing Church and World

Twelve Week Study Guide for Generously

• In recognizing his own poverty of faith and vision he could make room for a life changing encounter and invitation he would soon share with others.

What is Our Name Calling Us to Become

• Consider a future dependent on our willingness to risk going deeper – much deeper in relationships that courageously embody and live Christ’s love and mission.

Who am I becoming in Christ

• Excerpt from The Rebirthing of God: Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings