The Bible displays two primary groups of people that God sends us to, as we live out His mission: those in need and our neighbors.

This exercise invites you to study your neighborhood, city, workplace or community to start to know the ins and outs of your missional sphere.

A helpful “first step” to take in getting to know others more deeply is intentionally learning each other’s stories. This is true whether you have walked with people for a long while or whether you just formed a new group.

This exercise invites you to look at the things that shape and form you, either in light of or instead of the story God says is most true of you.

The practice of lament is lost in our modern world. Most people will distract or steel themselves rather than enter into a process of lament. Often misunderstood, lament is seen as a synonym for grief or venting anger, and what good does that do? The Bible teaches us a way to lament that leads to hope even amidst suffering. This exercise will help dig into what Scripture has to say about this lost art.

This exercise invites you to reflect on how the gospel might sound like good news in tangible ways, into real life scenarios people face. The “four movements” of the Story of God show us how Jesus gives us a true and better vision for different aspects of peoples’ worldview and common perceptions.

It can be difficult to define a shared mission — but such definition is often less about creating something brand new, and more about discerning and discovering what God is already doing among your community, together.

This exercise is provided to help make the connection from God’s commands to our daily lives.

This exercise will help small groups of people walk through what lies we’re believing and how the good news of Jesus will bring greater peace, joy, and freedom into our lives.

This exercise invites you into God’s one true story, which he tells in the Bible and our lives. Part 1 helps us see the story in the Bible and in our lives. Part 2 helps us remember the story's truths in times of of disbelief and temptation.

The whole Bible tells the one overarching meta-story of God. Each story, command, and passage in the Bible also tell God’s story, over and over in “micro-” ways. Think through some micro stories from the Bible and how they reflect the various parts of the story of God.

Work through the theological concept of “types” by discovering what is true about the original biblical element or character and then learn how Jesus is the true and better version.

This six-session course with Ben Connelly equips everyday Christians to live as missionaries right where they are, not just overseas. Through practical teaching and follow-up exercises, it helps believers display and declare the gospel in ordinary, everyday life.

This 11-session course with Ben Connelly offers a practical primer for anyone exploring the idea of church planting, whether you're feeling called, curious, or considering joining a team. Drawing from his own church planting experience, Connelly answers key questions and provides tangible next steps to help you discern and prepare for this important ministry calling.

In this three-session digital course, Dhati and Angie Lewis challenge believers to view their homes not as private retreats but as powerful tools for gospel hospitality and discipleship. Drawing from their personal experience, they offer practical wisdom on using the home to disciple kids and others, showing how everyday spaces can become meaningful places for kingdom impact.

In The Equipping Group’s “Redeeming Politics” course, Kaitlyn Schiess helped redefine “politics” from today’s common perception. She helps us rightly see politics as a concept that was created by God, and that has become broken because of sin, but that can be hopeful because in Christ, God is reconciling all things to himself. Because of Jesus’ work, there can be restoration — in part now and more fully in eternity — even in the realm of politics! In light of that renewed view of politics, we can see politics through the lens of the story of God.

In Reading the Bible, Missing the Gospel, Ben Connelly exposes common ways Christians misunderstand Scripture by centering it on themselves rather than on God. He invites readers to rediscover the Bible through the lens of Jesus as the true hero, reshaping how we view forgiveness, blessing, the church, and more.

In this free online workshop, seasoned missional leader Brad Watson helps us explore the realities of sharing the gospel in our cultural moment, focusing on today's deeper questions. We will see what sharing the gospel looks like, and what’s needed to help people in the process of coming to faith, in our increasingly post-secular societies.

My friend Matt has lamented before, that church leaders can skip the season of Advent and instead emphasize Christmas for the whole month of December. He claims that doing so diminishes the sweetness of Christmas! The joy of Jesus’s arrival, the peace and hope promised in the manger, the culmination of God’s love by sending a Redeemer and Messiah are only felt in their true power if contrasted against the silence, the waiting, the yearning, and even the hopelessness that’s historically defined the Advent season.