Take Your Group to a Place ...Where they can see people’s needs in a new wayWhere they can understand their callingWhere they will learn how their faith can shape cultureThis six-session DVD and corresponding curriculum helps your group experience and envision how followers of Christ can be a counterculture for the common good. Together you’ll experience stories of other believers who changed the culture around them, including Andy Crouch, Mako Fujimara, Rudy Carrasco, Mark Buchanan, Tal James, Frederica Mathewes-Green, and others. You’ll watch how their journeys unfolded, their challenges, and their breakthroughs. Also included on the DVD are insights from trusted pastors and Christian leaders such as Tim Keller, Lauren Winner, James Meeks, Brenda Salter McNeil, and Ken Fong.

This six-session video-based study will help your group experience and envision how followers of Christ can be a counterculture for the common good. Together you'll experience stories of believers who changed the culture around them. You'll watch and discuss how their journeys unfolded, their challenges, and their breakthroughs.

Take your group to a place ? ? Where they can see people's needs in a new way ? Where they can understand their calling ? Where they will learn how their faith can shape culture This six-session DVD and corresponding curriculum helps your group experience and envision how followers of Christ can be a counterculture for the common good. Together you'll experience stories of other believers who changed the culture around them. You'll watch how their journeys unfolded, their challenges, and their breakthroughs. Also included on the DVD are insights from trusted pastors and Christian leaders such as Tim Keller, Lauren Winner, James Meeks, Brenda Salter McNeil, and Ken Fong. Sessions consist of: 1. Begin: God calls the church to be a counterculture for the common good 2. Dwell: When we live closely with others, we find new opportunities to minister 3. Unite: We serve more effectively and joyfully when we serve together 4. Reconcile: God wants to heal our racial and ethnic divisions, especially in and through his church 5. Invest: Transforming entire communities begins when we give ourselves to people one by one 6. Abide: Spiritual disciplines help us abide in Christ so we can serve him faithfully

Our culture is in transition. Some say it is moving from a modern to a postmodern paradigm. And this emerging culture won t just blow over. In order to be effective witnesses and leaders, we need to understand this cultural paradigm shift and proactively plan how we will respond. This guide is designed by Jimmy Long to help you to explore, analyze and define what is occurring all around us. But more than that, it will help you shape your ministry for the rest of the twenty-first century. The participant's guide includes an introduction to the Emerging Culture curriculum Scripture passages with study helps interactive exercises questions to enhance discussion guidance for responding to postmodern people Here is everything you need for you to understand our new cultural environment and to move ahead powerfully in ministry.

Following the example of the 'Society Rooms' of the late 1600's and the Clapham Circle of the early 1800's, Q Society Rooms are designed to gather small groups of leaders to dialogue, learn, and work together to explore how to express the Christian faith in a post-Christian culture. A Participant's Book, Leader's DVD and Guide, and a group project complete the Q Society experience, which will challenge every participant's innermost beliefs and pre-conceived ideas about life, faith, the world, and cultural responsibility.In The Kingdom Way of Life: Recovering a Holistic Understanding of the Gospel, host Gabe Lyons and DVD presenters Scot McKnight, Tim Keller, and Jon Tyson explore questions of gospel: What did Jesus really preach about in his ministry? How can I live out the gospel in my culture? What is required to advance the common good? In this Q Society Room experience, your group will get the big picture of the gospel and explore the gospel as a way of life. You'll discuss how the message of Jesus can be lived out in the modern world and how all Christians can advance the gospel of Jesus today. Lyons and Norton Herbst then help you and the group explore---through short articles by noted authors, transcripts from Q Talks (included in the Leader's DVD and Guide), five meetings to discuss important topics related to the overall theme, and thought-provoking questions--- a practical look at the gospel Jesus taught and how to live it out today.The Kingdom Way of Life: Recovering a Holistic Understanding of the Gospel group meetings include:Group Meeting One -- Video: Scot McKnight | Did Jesus Preach the Gospel?Group Meeting Two -- Essay: Mike Metzger | Living the Gospel in CultureGroup Meeting Three -- Video: Tim Keller | The Both/And of the GospelGroup Meeting Four -- Video: Jon Tyson | Advancing the Common GoodGroup Meeting Five -- Group Project and Discussion

Another Gospel? Participant's Guide is a six-session workbook designed for use with the companion DVD experience (sold separately). Based on the book Another Gospel? by popular author, blogger, speaker, and worship leader Alisa Childers, this is a great resource for anyone wanting to explore the nuanced topic of progressive Christianity. Designed to be used with groups or individually, Another Gospel? Participant's Guide will Help you challenge the persuasive message of progressive Christianity by examining popular messages found in progressive books, blogs, social media platforms, and scholarship Teach you how to use discernment, think logically, and make biblically based observations Lead you to discover how deep, thrilling, and humbling the true gospel is In a culture of endless questions, you need solid answers. If you or someone you love has encountered the ideas of progressive Christianity and isn't sure how to respond, Alisa will show you how to determine--and rest in--what's unmistakably true. (Don't miss the companion Another Gospel? DVD Experience!)

Following the example of the 'Society Rooms' of the late 1600's and the Clapham Circle of the early 1800's, Q Society Rooms are designed to gather small groups of leaders to dialogue, learn, and work together to explore how to express the Christian faith in a post-Christian culture. A Participant's Book, Leader's DVD and Guide, and a group project complete the Q Society experience, which will challenge every participant's innermost beliefs and pre-conceived ideas about life, faith, the world, and cultural responsibility. In Engaging Post-Christian Culture: Our Mission in a New Context, host Gabe Lyons and DVD presenters Os Guiness, Alan Hirsch, and Andy Crouch explore the post-modern, post-Christian, and post-American world, where the church is no longer placed at the center of society. What should the church look like, and how does the mission of the church adapt within this context? In this Q Society Room experience, your group will be challenged to investigate the mission of Christians in a new reality. Engaging Post-Christian Culture: Our Mission in a New Context group meetings include: Group Meeting One -- Video: Os Guinness