Holding the Conversation and Sustaining the Practice
Prepare a hospitable conversation, respond to difficulty, and sustain one manageable practice between meetings.
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Series: What Is This For?
Six monthly conversations for committees and teams learning to connect their work with people, purpose, and the shalom of Christ.
Scripture and Sources
Read the biblical passages in context and explore the theological sources that inform the collection.
Start Here: What Is This For?
A guide to six monthly conversations, one continuing practice, and a shared rhythm of Scripture, listening, discernment, and prayer.
What Is Our Work For?
Connect one ordinary responsibility with the people it serves and the fruit you hope it will bear in Christ’s ministry.
What Season Are We In?
Discern what the community needs now and choose a sustainable response that fits this season.
How Does Our Part Serve the Whole?
Strengthen one relationship through which your group’s responsibilities contribute to the ministry of the whole community.
Whose Gifts Are We Learning to Recognize?
Learn to recognize, invite, and support another person’s gifts without reducing that person to a vacancy or an unpaid task.
What Are Our Meetings Teaching Us?
Change one repeated meeting practice so it strengthens shared discernment and ministry between meetings.
What Is Growing Among Us?
Recognize fruit honestly, celebrate specific contributions, and choose one practice to sustain for the next three months.
Mission and the Shalom of Christ
Explore Christ’s shalom and the questions that connect committee work with discipleship, belonging, justice, care, and faithful change.