Greetings Imago Dei Church, it’s about that time for Equip to launch! Equip is a discipleship training time that allows the Elders to get to know and begin equipping future leaders for roles that will take the gospel all over the world, and also to identify future Aspire interns.
Equip will hold monthly training meetings on Saturday mornings from 9:00am-11:00am. Through this program, the church seeks to train church planters, pastors, missionaries, growth group leaders, and church planting teams.
Our launch, on August 25 we will be first discussing a Tim Keller audio sermon entitled, “Preaching the Gospel.” It is a 40-minute audio sermon, so please come prepared for discussion.
Here are a few questions we want you to be thinking about when you discuss the content with your breakout group:
- Give a brief summary of the content.
- Agreements? Disagreements?
- Why would IDC leadership want us to learn this?
- What are some implications for your future ministry (whatever context God has you in)?
- What will this look like in the life of the church?
The overall topics covered in the Equip program are as follows:
- The Gospel (Appropriation)
- Ministry of the Word and Sufficiency
- Primacy of the Local Church
- Community
- Administration of the Church
- Mission and Missiology
- Pastoral Ministry
Covenant members and prospective members, if any of you are interested in this and would like to be a part of Equip, please email equip@idcraleigh.com so we can get you in a Google group because most, if not all communication will be via email. We look forward to working alongside you. Grace and peace.