The Committed Community
Building a culture of commitment can provide sturdier encouragement to believers to take the step of publicly professing their faith and affirming their baptism before their brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Building a culture of commitment can provide sturdier encouragement to believers to take the step of publicly professing their faith and affirming their baptism before their brothers and sisters in Christ.
When we share our stories, we experience the blessing of telling and hearing about God’s faithfulness in our everyday lives. Here's one idea for becoming a story-telling church.
Use these listening prompts and discussion questions to start a conversation with your congregation (or family!) about living justly.
Reading stories to young children opens a world to them, and by incorporating Bible storybooks and/or books with biblical themes, children come to know God in a more transformational way than through direct teaching.
The Building Blocks of Faith aren’t only for churches! Here’s how meeting four spiritual needs can strengthen curriculum, instruction, and assessment in Christian schools.
The Building Blocks of Faith can transform your church’s faith formation efforts, and this newly revised resource can help.
Serving as a family can be life-changing for all of you! Here are five tips from the Dwell at Home series of family faith formation resources.
Here you will find a variety of resources to help with your worship planning, including sermon support, orders of worship, songs, and children’s sermons.
Sometimes we forget that older people are still growing in faith. They’re often marginalized, but your congregation needs them! Here are some ways to use the Building Blocks of Faith with older adults.
A small group ministry encourages deep relationships and gives people an opportunity to grow in faith, and the Building Blocks of Faith can help give small groups a specific focus.
How can our congregations become places where our neighbors can explore and be encouraged to grow in their understanding of God’s call?
In our culture, “hope” can sound like a slightly more adult version of “wish.” So how is Christian hope, the hope we are created to live into and share with others, different?
We all want to belong. Addressing this universal need can help your outreach team explore incarnational approaches to community engagement, transforming ministry "to" and "for" into ministry "with."
Because mentoring is highly relational, it’s a great way to experience deep belonging, explore God’s story in generative ways, build up each other’s hope in Christ, and speak into or confirm each other’s calling.
The Building Blocks of Faith describe four spiritual needs that are met in Christ. Here are some ideas for helping faith to flourish by meeting those needs in your church’s intergenerational ministries.
Christian parents want to nurture their children’s faith, but they don’t always know where to begin. The Building Blocks of Faith provide an excellent framework for family faith formation, giving parents a place to start with any child, at any age.
Here are some ideas for how church leaders can use the Building Blocks of Faith to assess ministry strengths and weaknesses and create new ministry initiatives that are holistic in scope and in faith formation engagement.
The Building Blocks of Faith describe four spiritual needs that are met in Christ. Here are some ideas for helping faith to flourish by meeting those needs in your church’s children’s ministry.
Here are a few debriefing and assessment tools that can help you fine-tune your work toward creating a discipleship culture using the Building Blocks of Faith.
Learn how to use the four Building Blocks of Faith in your faith formation ministry planning process.
Explore creative resources and practices for summer family faith formation to use both in community and at home.
Explore creative resources and practices for technology to use both in community and at home.
Explore creative resources and practices for spiritual development to use both in community and at home.
Explore creative resources and practices for serving to use both in community and at home.
Explore creative resources and practices for prayer to use both in community and at home.