Leading a Transforming Community Study Guide

About this book

Tools and Practices to Foster Transformation in the Communities God Has Entrusted to You: The Companion Guide to Leading a Transforming CommunityFor pastors, leaders, and anyone longing to experience deeper levels of transformation in their life with others, this six-session study guide is the essential companion to Ruth Haley Barton's seminal book Leading a Transforming Community.This guide provides the practical framework for individuals and groups to apply the book's teachings, helping you cultivate a community where transformation is the norm and not the exception. It is designed to help your group process and apply the vision and practices for becoming a community that gathers around the presence of Christ.This study guide will equip you and your group with Six sessions for personal reflection, group conversation, and next steps; Thought-provoking questions to foster discussion and application of the book's core concepts; Liturgical prayers and group practices to help you experience God together and orient your community toward deeper spiritual formation; and Practical guidance for establishing or developing your own transforming community, turning vision into reality. When your group uses the Leading a Transforming Community Study Guide alongside Leading a Transforming Community, you can learn to discern and do the will of God together, creating a vibrant community of spiritual transformation that empowers others to do the same.