Leadership Training - Introduction and Syllabus

I'm doing 10 weeks of training with leaders this summer. I'm going to try to post the content each week. Here's the game plan:


Introduction:

The goal of this training is to raise up an army of shepherds who will intentionally seek to initiate in the lives of others for the purpose of helping them grow in the worship of God. All of Christian evangelism (helping nonchristians become Christians) and discipleship (helping Christians become spiritually mature) is aimed at the single purpose of the worship of God.

Here is the outline of what we will be covering for the next ten weeks:


House Church Leader Training – Summer ‘09

1. (June 3) The Gospel (How every topic on this page and more all stem from the gospel - the gift of grace given to us in the Christ event) This is the first of 5 devotions - worship

2. (June 10) The Five Devotions, (Five domains of the Christian life: Worship, Prayer, The Word, The Church, The World )

3. (June 17) The Five Devotions continued

4. (June 24) Time Management (the grid: roles, goals, time sheet, evaluation and tweaking)

5. (July 1) Fishing For Humans (taking initiative in the lives of others in your life or in a fishing pool event)

6. (July 8) The Small Group Experience: Hospitality; Community Building; Corporate Worship; Bible Study Discussion; Prayer

7. (July 15) Fishing For Humans (taking initiative in the lives of your small group members)

8. (July 22) Shepherding: Listening and Questions (the art of conversation)

9. (July 29) Shepherding: Biblical Guidance (common issues in the lives of disciples)

10. (August 5) Shepherding: Biblical Guidance

11. (August 12) Building your leadership team: Spiritual Gifts (Romans 12, Ephesians 4, 1 Corinthians 12)

12. (August 19) Training your leadership team: 3 stages of raising leaders (Jesus did it / they watched; they did it Jesus watched; they did it)