PD Essentials: Building the Foundation for a Healthy Church

PD Essentials: Building the Foundation for a Healthy Church

October 11-14, 2016 Lake Forest, California
On-demand - available October 24th 2016 through October 14th 2017 ($199).

Learn transferable and scaleable Purpose Driven principles for building and maintaining a healthy church.

Learn Purpose Driven strategies and get equipped to move the local church body into engaged disciples. Taught by Pastor Rick Warren, PD Essentials is the paradigm for growing a healthy church, to be empowered to make a global church impact. Discover the fundamentals of building a healthy church, through transferable and scalable principles for ministry. PD Essentials will encourage your spirit, sharpen your skills, and strengthen your creativity.

Sessions

Introduction

Importance of PD Essentials / PDC Boot Camp
Taught to over 500,000 pastors from 164 countries
The history of the Purpose Driven Church
Pastor Rick Warren’s life message
Goal 1: To encourage your spirit
Goal 2: To stretch your mind; stimulate your creativity
Goal 3: To sharpen your skills
Goal 4: To strengthen your church
Goal 5: To empower you to teach what you’ve learned
How to work smarter, not harder
We don’t have all the answers; The importance of learning from experiences
Teaching you to teach others
There’s no correlation between the size and the strength of a church
Purposes are unchanging and we don't get to choose them
Never confuse the method with the message

SESSION 2: COMMUNICATING THE PURPOSES

How to communicate and clarify the purposes
Five ways to communicate vision
The key to applying the purposes
How to organize your church around the five purposes
How to lead your church to commit God’s purposes
How to balance the five purposes in your church
What we do; target
Defining the levels of commitment
Examining community, crowd, congregation, committed, core, commissioned
Changing the culture of a church through the commissioned
Moving from congregation into the committed
Programs vs. process
What it means to be a Purpose Driven Church
Ten ways to fulfill God’s purposes; how to organize the purposes
Finding group members to champion the five purposes
Four priorities of a Purpose Driven Church

Session 3: TARGETING YOUR COMMUNITY FOR EVANGELISM (Part A)

A systematic approach of the circles (community, crowd, congregation, committed, core, commissioned)
How to bring people in and build them up
How to fish for souls like Jesus
Helping other churches in your area and learning from one another
The secret of winning people to Christ
Jesus’s strategy of fishing for men
Six principles of evangelism
How to define your evangelistic target
Four questions to ask in targeting your community
The importance of an all-nation congregation
How to determine your approach and strategy
Know whom you are targeting
How to discover the mindset of an unbeliever

Session 4: TARGETING YOUR COMMUNITY FOR EVANGELISM (Part B)

Go where the fish are biting
How to focus on reaching the most receptive people in your community
Using the most appropriate hook
Catching fish on their terms
Being flexible in evangelism
The message must never change, only the methods
Three pillars to becoming more evangelistically effective
How to prepare worship that witnesses to unbelievers
Keys to winning anybody to Christ
Let the needs of unbelievers determine the programs
Let the mindset of unbelievers determine the strategy
Let the culture of unbelievers determine your evangelistic style
Use more than one hook
Three things about financing evangelism in church
Fish for the kind of fish you can best reach
Two questions to ask when determining your most receptive people groups
What to do when your church doesn’t match the community
First steps in targeting your community for Christ

Session 5: ATTRACTING A CROWD TO WORSHIP (Part A)

How to move people from the community to the crowd
Five observations about crowds
Three things Jesus did to attract crowds
Twelve convictions about worship
How to figure out the “why” before the “how”
What attracts unbelievers to church
Five ways to design an evangelistic worship service
Suggestions to reduce visitors’ anxiety and fear
Twelve ways to build a service to evangelize unbelievers

Session 6: ATTRACTING A CROWD TO WORSHIP (Part B)

Factors that create a friendly environment
How to set the tone and mood
How to preach with your target and purpose in mind
Tools for evaluation
How to match your music to your target
Things pastors should tell their worship leaders

Session 7: BUILDING YOUR CONGREGATION

How to turn attenders into members
How to build a caring congregation
How to create a climate where people want to join
Suggestions to warm up fellowship as a leader
Communicating the value of membership
Positioning your church as a family
Developing a plan to assimilate new members
Five questions you need to answer for prospective members
Establishing a required membership class
Developing a membership covenant
How to build relationships and make members feel valued

Session 8: DEVELOPING COMMITTED DISCIPLES

Moving people from the congregation into the committed
Going from membership to maturity
The eight laws of spiritual growth
Raising the spiritual maturity level of your members
How we do it
Your role and responsibility as a church leader
Five tools to cultivate spiritual growth
The Purpose Driven CLASS system
Five reasons covenants are important to the health of the church
Large group worship and small group fellowship
The personal benefits of being in a small group
Six advantages of home groups over Sunday school
Three weaknesses of Sunday school
Five things the first Purpose Driven small groups did (Acts 2)
Four barriers that keep believers from growing to maturity
The acronym of CHAT
The fifth tool for moving people to spiritual growth: campaigns
Five transformational components of successful campaigns

Session 9: EMPOWERING YOUR CORE FOR MINISTRY

Steps to empowering people for ministry
Keys to maximizing ministry in your church
Teaching an expression of your SHAPE
Completing your personal profile
Streamlining your organizational structure
Providing job training for leadership community
Never start ministry without a minister
How to turn an audience into an army
Our most important resource
Establishing a ministry-placement process; Standards and guidelines
Streamlining your organizational structure
The most critical factor in a new ministry
Giving your people freedom in ministry
Four kinds of support: material, communication, promotional, training
Mobilizing your core for ministry
Delegating authority with responsibility
The key to motivating lay-ministers
People respond to responsibility
Three ways to bring out the best in people
Keeping the vision before them

Session 10: SENDING OUT YOUR COMMISSIONED ON MISSION

The Great Commission
Importance of “Go”
The five Global Giants
The Global PEACE Plan
Two kinds of reconciliation that Jesus preached and modeled
Ordinary people empowered by God, making a difference together
How to continue the mission of Jesus
Three parts of the PEACE Plan
Why the PEACE Plan is different from other strategies
The seven PILLARS of PEACE
How to adopt God’s agenda
Four features of the kingdom of God
How to abandon all distractions
How to appropriate God’s power
How to answer God’s Call
Personal invitation to be a Purpose Driven Church
The Purpose Driven Fellowship Covenant
Prayer of blessing

SESSION 1: BUILDING THE RIGHT FOUNDATION

Building a Purpose Driven Church; Building the right foundation
Why we shouldn’t focus on growth
The five systems in the body of Christ
Defining the term “drive” and “driven”
Learning the biblical alternative to being driven by tradition, finances, etc.
God uses skilled people to build his church
Your ministry will be tested by God
The test of your ministry is how long will it last
How to have a lasting ministry
How to lay the right foundation
What a Purpose Driven Church is NOT
The only way to always be relevant is to be eternal
Three things you must do to be a Purpose Driven Church
How to define, communicate, and apply your purpose
Five purposes for the church and why they exist
How to be specific in your purpose statement