SELF-PACED RESOURCES
Self-paced courses designed for your ongoing ministry education
in fruitful, gospel-infused mission and ministry.
Why Self-Paced?
Our goal is to provide quality training on an array of topics from seasoned practitioners. Each course has been crafted and curated to serve you as well as possible in whatever season of ministry you find yourself in. The sessions include a brief training video and follow-up work to make the content personal and tangible.
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Check out this free course, Everyday Mission, with The Equipping Group’s founder, Ben Connelly. This course will give you a feel for what our other courses have to offer. Then make sure you check out all our other courses with a wide range of topics to help equip you for your next step in ministry.
Over six sessions, Ben Connelly (pastor, founder of the Equipping Group, and co-author of A Field Guide for Everyday Mission) asks and answers questions to help us live on God’s mission, in everyday life.
Available Courses
Our courses are designed to go through it alone at your own pace, or we have pricing plans to incorporate anywere from a small group to a whole church. We hope you’ll pursue these courses in the context of a close community, and of course, our “pay-what-you-can” policy applies to each self-paced course.
Each session includes an ebook with information on two related concepts, followed by reflection questions. The goal is to help you implement and apply principles in a contextualized way, as you and your team take next steps into sending for God’s mission.
Alan Briggs gives reflection questions and an assignment to make the content personal and tangible. These punchy, practical axioms, gleaned from Alan’s years of leading multiple different organizations and coaching dozens of leaders, will offer the practical wisdom many leaders need.
In this video, pastor and author Jonathan Dodson invites us to be intellectually honest about the claims of the Gospels. He challenges believers to question their faith and skeptics to doubt their doubts in order to more deeply appreciate the resurrection.
Ben Connelly, Pastor and Author, reveals shockingly common ways we mis-read and mis-interpret the Bible. He invites us to see the Bible's themes and teachings through a new lens—or, rather, God's intended lens—on topics like confession and forgiveness . . . what it means to be blessed or happy . . . and the role of church in a believer's faith.
Bill Clem helps us consider four aspects of thriving in ministry. Bill has worked for multiple churches, academic institutions, and organizations. Through his own trial and heart-ache, Bill is still pouring himself into ministry, and giving this season of his life to help other’s soul thrive for decades in ministry.
Ben Connelly has planted four churches and trained dozens of planters in various contexts, having led church planting residencies for various organizations across North America. In this course, he helps answer questions potential church planters need to ask.
The Lewises share from their hard-earned wisdom and experience, how every home can be a weapon for hospitality in general, for discipling kids, and for discipling others… in short, your home can be a weapon for the gospel!
Kaitlyn Schiess helped redefine “politics” from today’s common perception. In light of a renewed view of politics, we can see politics through the lens of the story of God.
Gerry Breshears, Professor of Systematic Theology at Western Seminary, helps navigate the roles of women and men in the church biblically and challenges us to value everyone's voice as we serve and teach together.
Tomy Wilkerson, Tampa Director of Underground Network, leads the listener through the journey of discovering your unique design and mission God has prepared specifically for you.