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More Than Sermons: Spiritual Formation in Your Congregation
EVENT DATE & DETAILSNote: The listed times for this workshop are on Eastern Time (ET).
Congregations gather every week, hoping to make a difference in the world, and in their own community. But without a plan for translating that hope into everyday actions, it can be hard to achieve that goal – to go beyond sermons, and create a plan for the future.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to:
- Make a programming map to identify what your congregation is designed to do
- Follow the testimonies of your congregation to identify where change is taking place
- Be intentionally curious through workplace visits, mentoring and identifying themes
Over the course of the workshop, you will:
- Create your own framework for intentionally forming your congregation into a community where people say “yes” to God’s invitation
- Evaluate your own congregation to understand how it has changed and what the community’s values are
- Plan how to prioritize formative work on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly basis
- Leave with a clear and immediately implementable set of steps to start your intentional formation journey
About the instructorRev. Ethan Linder is a neighbor in Marion, Indiana, a dad of 3 kids under 8 (Ezra, Isaiah, and Jack), and husband to Sarah. He serves as Pastor of Discipleship at College Wesleyan Church in Marion, Indiana, and Assistant Director of the Young Adult Innovation Hub at Indiana Wesleyan University. A lot of his past decade of pastoral work has focused on young adults, deconstruction, reconstruction, and seeing the Gospel lived and preached as truly good news.
Dr. Amanda Drury is a professor of practical theology at Indiana Wesleyan University and executive director of the Imaginarium which houses the Strengthening Ministry With Children Coordination Program. She has MDiv and PhD degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and is the author of Saying is Believing: The Necessity of Testimony in Adolescent Spiritual Development and Testimony and Trauma. She lives in Marion, IN with her husband, John, and their three children.
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