Breakout Series

Compelled by Love

Trusted missiologist Ed Stetzer and coauthor and pastor Philip Nation bring missional thinking to everyday believers in their new release Compelled by Love. It is a basic theology-and-application platform to help believers understand what missional living is all about—that is, our calling to love others.

Written in a warm conversational tone, the compelling and transforming power of God's love will be evident to the average reader. The book is structured for individual or group use and is written primarily in first person.

Each chapter follows a basic pattern and includes illustrations, basic theology, understandable principles of missiology, and ideas for personal application. "It beckons for a community aiding one another to integrate love into all aspects of our missional calling."

Facilitated by Kevin Pettie

Church on Fire

This inductive study of Acts 1–14 has been designed to bring the Scriptures alive for your group with emphasis on behavioral life change.

Features include: 13 sessions, deeper level option for each session, introductory comments related to the previous session, summary comments related to the next session, reference notes, ice-breakers keyed to session topics, and relational caring time questions tied to the Scripture passage's subject.

Sample of Core Values from the Book
"The purpose of this curriculum is to build community within the body of believers around Jesus Christ. To build community, the curriculum must be designed to take a group through a step-by-step proecss of sharing your story with one another.

To share your 'story', the approach to Scripture in the curriculum needs to be openended and right brain - to 'level the palying field' and encourace everyone to share."

Facilitated by Don Collins

Forgotten God

Following up on the profound message of Crazy Love, Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit, by Pastor Francis Chan offers a compelling invitation to understand, embrace, and follow the Holy Spirit's direction in our lives. In the name of the Father, the Son, and ... the Holy Spirit.

We pray in the name of all three, but how often do we live with an awareness of only the first two? As Jesus ascended into heaven, He promised to send the Holy Spirit--the Helper--so that we could be true and living witnesses for Christ. Unfortunately, today's church has admired the gift but neglected to open it.

Breakthrough author Francis Chan rips away paper and bows to get at the true source of the church's power--the Holy Spirit. Chan contends that we've ignored the Spirit for far too long, and we are reaping the disastrous results.

Thorough scriptural support and compelling narrative form Chan's invitation to stop and remember the One we've forgotten, the Spirit of the living God.

Facilitated by David Atwell