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What can I do to help my church grow?
We all want to find a biblical model for healthy growth that impacts not just our churches, but the world. Lasting growth happens when each member of your church is equipped and empowered to personally fulfill the Great Commission. A multiplying church enlists every disciple to make disciples.
But how can your church become a multiplying church? Whether you’re part of an energized church or your church has fallen on lean times, you can equip your people to make disciples and experience transformational growth.
Why this course?
Implement Strategies for Multiplication
Whether you’re starting from scratch or building upon an existing system, J.D. will lay out a blueprint for multiplication. You will set clear goals around the values of multiplication and implement proven practices to help you meet those goals.
Define Discipleship for Your Church
People can’t be expected to make disciples if they don’t know who a disciple is and what a disciple does. J.D. will talk through different identities and practices of a mature disciple to help you create a sustainable pathway for congregational disciple-making.
Identify Your Bias Toward Growth
We often divide churches between congregations committed to growing wide and those committed to growing deep. J.D. will break down this false dichotomy and show you why both width and depth are essential to a multiplying church.
At the end of this course, you will...
Acquire practical steps to develop a culture of multiplication in your church.
Identify obstacles preventing your church from prioritizing disciple-making.
Value growing wide and deep and gain a vision for how to do both.
Learn strategies to help you discuss financially supporting multiplication.
Included in this course:
Five 15–20-minute teaching videos
and an introduction from J.D. Greear.
Discussion questions
to lead team conversations or reflect on your own.
20 practical exercises
to apply the principles to your life and to practice between sessions.
Define multiplication and learn how multiplying churches are the best way to fulfill the Great Commission.
Create a culture of multiplication by ensuring that every member of your church realizes their role in disciple-making.
Identify external and internal obstacles preventing your congregation from becoming disciples who make other disciples.
Understand what it means to grow your church wide and how to faithfully extend the reach of the gospel within our churches and to our communities.
Learn what it looks like to root the gospel in people’s hearts so that they can go and live like Jesus for the sake of others.
Unlock the spiritual maturity of your churches by talking about financial stewardship wisely and confidently.
J.D. Greear
J.D. Greer is lead pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. Under his leadership, The Summit has grown from 300 to over 10,000 in attendance each Sunday. In the last fifteen years, he has overseen sending more than 1,000 people on domestic and international church planting teams. He’s authored many books including Gaining by Losing and Essential Christianity: The Transforming Power of the Gospel in Ten Simple Words.
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You can use this series on your own or with other leaders at your church. The written curriculum is geared toward group discussion, but it can also be used individually.
Pastor and author J.D. Greear shares practiced principles to help your church develop a culture of disciple-making church in this five-session series.
Yes. This course is only available with a RightNow Pastors+ subscription as part of a RightNow Media account. Click here for more information.
Plan for an hour to an hour and a half to go through each session, especially if you’re going through the content in a group. The videos in this series range from 4 to 19 minutes, and the discussion questions and activities will likely take up the rest of your meeting time.
This series is five sessions long with a short introductory session. Feel free to cover the sessions in increments that make the most sense for you and your leadership team. For some, it might work best to go through one session a week; for others, it might be better to cover one session a month. We do not recommend doubling up on sessions.
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