Personal and Corporate Spiritual Discipline
Session Agenda
1. Reconnect with your coaching group (if applicable).
2. Share a devotion and prayer.
3. Discuss Celebration of Discipline with these questions:
4. Review “The Priority of Prayer” outline. Discuss the article with these questions:
I. Developing an understanding of the priority of prayer.
II. Developing your personal prayer life.
III. Developing your intercessory prayer team.
IV. Developing a praying church.
6. Review each church assessment in the group (if applicable). What can we learn from the data you’ve collected?
7. Review the demographic report for your area provided by MissionInsite.
8. Complete the Outreach Focus Worksheet to further clarify the church’s outreach focus.
List your top 5 segments.
What segments is your church positioned to reach NOW?
Name the segments you could reach with minimal changes.
What ideas might work for these segments?
9. Read the “Understanding and Applying Demographics” outline. Answer the “Key Questions” in the first section to continue your discussion about community research and its implications for your church. What’s the takeaway from the four steps?
Understanding and Applying Demographics
Step 1: Focus Attention
Step 2: Interpret Data
Step 3: Dig Deeper
Step 4: Put It All Together
10. To Do Items
Meeting 3 Prep
(to be completed in preparation for Meeting 3)
Read Deep Change by Robert E. Quinn. Prepare to discuss how it applies to you and to your church at the next meeting.
Read “What Kind of Leader Can Grow a Church?” by Everett Anthony. Write down some implications from this blog post that apply to your life.
Select your Church Leadership Team Members if you haven’t done so and write down the names as an accountability step. If you’re in a group, bring those names to the next meeting.
“Deep Change Summary” by Derek Zacharias | Use this book summary to apply what you are learning and begin making some of the changes that Quinn points to. The key is moving from survival mode to a true transformational focus.
“What Kind of Leader Can Grow a Church?” by Everett Anthony
View a PRIZM Premier Segments Profile for your community.
MOSAIC Segments and Descriptions by Experian
Leavell Center Demographic Reports by New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
Outreach Focus Worksheet (Fillable PDF) by MinistryActionPlans.com
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