Leader's Guide for a seven-week whole-church course exploring how a church should live as a light to the world.
Part of the Gospel Shaped Church series.
Gospel Shaped Church is a curriculum from The Gospel Coalition that will help whole congregations pause and think carefully and prayerfully about the kind of church they are called to be.
Gospel Shaped Living is a track that explores over 7 sessions what it means for a local church to be a distinctive countercultural community.
How should Christians live? The church should be a distinctive community of God’s people—but how different are we from the rest of the world? This track helps us untangle some of the false ideas and traditions that evangelicals have had in the past, and reveals the more deeply challenging picture that emerges from Scripture.
This flexible resource will train your whole church through teaching, preaching, daily reading and small-group Bible study and discussion—or any combination of those elements. The overall aim is that your church will embark on a journey to discover the kind of people they should be as they are shaped by the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Preface by Don Carson and Tim Keller
Introduction
How to use this course
1. Your church: A light in the darkness
2. A united church in a divided world
3. A serving church in a selfish world
4. A generous church in a stingy world
5. A truthful church in a confused world
6. A joyful church in a suffering world
7. How to be church in the world
| Contributors | Vermon Pierre |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781910307939 |
| Format | eBook |
| First published | October 2015 |
| Language | English |
| No. of studies | 7 |
| Publisher | The Good Book Company |
"Churches called into existence by the gospel should also be shaped by the gospel in their everyday life."
- Don Carson and Tim Keller
This is part of the five-track Gospel Shaped Church curriculum developed with The Gospel Coalition from its ministry distinctives expressed in it's foundational documents. The full range is:
• Gospel Shaped Worship
• Gospel Shaped Outreach
• Gospel Shaped Living
• Gospel Shaped Work
• Gospel Shaped Mercy
"The Gospel Coalition believes in the priority of the local church, and that the local church is the best place to discuss these five ministry drivers and decide how to integrate them into life and mission. So, while being clear on the biblical principles, these resources give space to consider what a genuine expression of a gospel-shaped church looks like for you in the place God has put you, and with the people he has gathered into fellowship with you."
- Don Carson and Tim Keller
I brought this as we are covering this course at our church. The course is very well delivered and gets you thinking how you can be a better light to others, I would definitely recommend for church groups. It stirs up good conversations.
