Course: The course of your life

The Course of Your Life is essentially a framework to help you apply the word of God to people’s lives prayerfully and intensively. The subtitle is ‘a personal revolution’, and that’s what the course seeks to do—to revolutionize hearts and minds by focusing on the central and profound issues of who God is, what he has done in Christ, what his extraordinary plans are for the world and for us, and how that generates a whole new agenda for the course of our lives: to be disciple-making disciples of Jesus.

Course Structure
Seminar 1: Getting started
Seminar 2: God’s creative purposes
Seminar 3: What went wrong?
Seminar 4: God’s answer
Seminar 5: God’s agenda
Seminar 6: Christ’s death, my life
Seminar 7: Transformation
Seminar 8: God’s method
Seminar 9: Where to now?


To run the course you will need:
➡ a workbook for each person
➡ a leader’s guide (the leader does not also need a workbook—the leader’s guide contains all the material in the workbook (black printing), plus notes and scripts for the leader (blue printing)
➡ a leader’s DVD (assuming you want to use the video input clips rather than teach the material yourself).
There are free samples to download of each of these components on their web site

For more information visit http://www.matthiasmedia.com/coyl/the-course-material/

Lutheran Church of Australia - Board for local mission resources

The Lutheran Church of Australia Board for Local Mission has a focus on:
Grow as God's people and God as God's people.
Some of the resources available include:

Church Planting: Plant Water Grow booklet.
African and Asian ministry
Joint mission with other LCA agencies

for more information visit http://www.lca.org.au/local-mission.html

Evangelism Resources from Lutheran CORE

Lutheran Core provides the following evangelism resources

• Reviewing your current worship practices 
• Drifting towards universalism
• Preaching with Relevance
• Reflections and Observations
• Pathology of Congregations in Decline
• Small groups revisited
• Suggestions for your annual stewardship campaign
• Characteristics of effective,  growing churches
• Does God have a plan for your congregation?
• Mentoring in ministry
• Moving from Reactive Conflict to Proactive Mission Part 1
• Moving from reactive conflict to proactive mission Part 2
• Motivating and empowering your priests
• New demographic impacts outreach
• Nominal Protestantism
• Not forgetting the essentials–Part 1
• One Congregation’s Journey Part 1
• One Congregation’s Journey Part 2
• Preaching in the Digital Age
• Revisiting the Facts on Growth Study
• Small Group Ministry 
• Tension between style & content
• What the local church is uniquely equipped to offer
• Who Are “The Nones?”
• Your ministry to Boomers

To view these resources visit http://www.lutherancore.org/resources/evangelism-mission-evangelism-mission/

Article: Lessons for Effective ministry in Post-Christian context

Can the Christian community flourish in a post-Christian context?
This is the main question behind a landmark study of the state of faith and effective ministry in Scotland, a Post-Christian context—which has been undertaken by the Barna Group. Visit https://www.barna.org/barna-update/culture/730-scotland-lessons-for-effective-ministry-in-a-post-christian-context#.Vfcpnfmqqkq to view the study.

Article: Preaching Luther style

The following article Lutherans aren't supposed to talk this way, explores the way Martin Luther actually preached...

http://surburg.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/marks-thoughts-lutherans-arent-supposed.html?spref=fb