Adult Sunday School

Be familiar with the following content from The Preface, Introduction, Appendix, & Chapters 1-5 of “Living Out the Mind of Christ: Practical Keys to Discovering and Applying the Mind of Christ in Every Day Life” by Dr. Gutierrez

The Art of Personal Evangelism: Sharing Jesus in a changing culture By Will McRaney, Jr. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Academic, 2003, 268 pp., $19.99 paper.

Dr. Adam L. Hughes is the Dean of Chapel and Assistant Professor of Expository Preaching at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. With over sixteen years of pastoral experience, Hughes’s practical experience and academic prowess not only make him the perfect professor, but also the perfect Director for the Adrian Rogers Center for Expository Preaching.

I currently attend and work at a church with 2000+ regular attendees. We currently have over 40 small groups that meet on a weekly basis. Small groups are at the core of what we do. Beginning at age 3, we believe that the small group is THE place to grow more like Jesus and practice the “one anothers” with one another.

Galindo analyzes that the fundamental “mission” of a congregation is the same as any other congregation that exists in any part of the world. He argues that though every congregation has a mission and a vision, at the same time, it shares a basic common mission. (43) This reminds me of my home church The First Church of Evanston and my Field Site, The Evanston Vineyard Church. Both churches have a common mission of welcoming people to the church, irrespective of their ethnic, cultural, racial, and economic and, gender backgrounds. The mission is to help people be received in the house of God with due and deserved Christian love so that they feel loved and welcomed. Both these churches encourage church attendees to attend the service and receive the Eucharist.

The commitment level in the Sunday School ministries is strong at First Baptist. About 60 percent of the Sunday morning worship is also in Sunday School. Sunday School tends to be strictly educational in nature. The groups do take care of each other in most cases. However, mentoring and further discipleship is not happening. The participation in other discipleship programs is much smaller. As stated earlier, the groups that are meeting outside of Sunday School are

As missional leader, my task is to help my congregation, synod, and church wide to understand the need for adaptive leadership if we are to be vital and thriving hubs for missional outreach in the world. Additionally, I must motivate parishioners and lay leaders to be agents of change; not to be agents of status quo. Additionally, my goal allow the Spirit to transform my congregations from an inward focus of maintenance to an outward focus of mission and to invite my congregation to be agents of adaptive leadership and transformation beyond their comfort zones of homogeneity in their current community context. In other words, my assignment is to help my congregation to understand that the task of the church is to be the church. I must show them the importance of evangelism and outreach, but our doing is important must be married with our being the church. I must help my

Pastor Renfro, as he is known by those who have had the pleasure to meet him, defines servant leadership as “one of the many models of ministry, each of which describes how a particular minister understands his/her role and approach to ministry as a vocation, and a way of life.” Dr. John Renfro is currently senior chaplain at Conway Medical Center in Conway, South Carolina. He grew up in simple, rural South Carolina in Spartanburg County, and he benefitted from a family who had a personal deep connection with God. His simplistic beginning provides the anchor of stability in a turbulent world for his family and those whom he offers ministry. Pastor Renfro has felt that “ministry grows out of life, the life of an

With the knowledge that I have acquired at Walden, it is my responsibility to do something with the knowledge that I’ve received. As one of the youth leaders at my church, we have planning meetings to assess our progress within our ministry. Since I have being attending Walden, I have learned a lot about the importance of setting measurable goals, having realistic objectives to achieve a mission. Now, in our meetings I bring awareness to these key components and ignite the group to incorporate these effective strategies to track our development. Some members appreciate my input and others probably wish I would remain silent. But I realize that I have a duty to share and implement what I have learned in a practical non-threatening

This paper is the final results of my internship ministry practicum II experiences reflection in my church organization work settings and training. My experiences from different areas of exposure sharpened my skills for my professional role of the Doctor of Ministry Program in the theological field of counseling and teaching. My ministry practicum consists of direct involvements with hands-on, real-life interactions under the supervision of my Supervisor, Chaplain Andrea Fletcher. This Comprehensive Written Review analyzes the full spectrum of my observation and participation in tasks from my Ministry Learning Agreement Form. The opportunity allowed me to view other leaders in ministry exercising their gift and in turns

Our food pantry is meeting the needs of dozens of families forgotten by our welfare system. When we look at our worshipping community through the eyes of grace instead of scarcity, we see a God who still has much God wants to do through our community. Re-reading Neumark’s memoir also gave me good advice on how to stay sane during the hard work of church revitalization. Neumark writes about relying on the imperfect leadership of her lay leadership, because she cannot do all of the work herself.2 She writes about necessity of prayer if pastors want their churches to have a prayer against the powers that be.3 She writes about the joy her family brings her, but also the struggle of pastoring a challenging church and parenting a growing family.4 Finally, she writes about the necessity of friendship in sustaining her spirit as she lives out her call to

The theological worlds presented within the congregation and Rev. Selznick are not coordinating well with each other. The congregation is heavily involved in world 2; the journey from conflict to vindication. They are so focused on helping the world around them that they are only hearing what they want to hear from Rev. Selznick. Rev. Selznick is coming from theological world 3; the journey from emptiness to fulfillment. On Wednesday nights, he dedicated evening classes where fulfillment is one of the focuses. These two clash due to the difference of focus. The focus within theological world 2 and the congregation lies within the need to be so bothered with an issue, that the only outcome has to be justice. Rev. Selznick has already been

Have you ever heard a scripture passage during a sermon that has left you with questions or feeling lost? During Sunday School you can ask questions and seek clarification for things that you cannot wrap your head around. Engaging with others allows deeper understanding which strengthens your

Christian education is an intentional process in developing relationship with God for the purpose of fulfilling the mandate to “go and make disciples of all nations, to “preach and teach” the good news of the gospel of Christ, and to build the Kingdom of God. In developing and incorporating evangelism and discipleship into a current Christian education program I believe that involvement of the entire membership of the congregation should be employed (all age

This course has had a great impact on my walk with Christ as well as my witness for Christ. I pastor a church and teach two classes and for me I thought that I was doing plenty. However this course has helped rekindle my passion for sharing Jesus Christ with people through personal evangelism. This paper will demonstrate what I have learned throughout this course.