The heart cry of pastors and leaders
is “how do we envision our people and mobilise them into relationship with Jesus
and effective action within our communities.
The Sunday sermon is having little ongoing impact and is easily forgotten,
housegroups are drying up and the psalms have been read, dissected and put back
together again for the third time this year! Church has become a place where we
meet rather than who we are.
To reach our communities we need a people with an ongoing living relationship
with Jesus, which will impact family life, the life of the Church and provide
serious workers for Jesus into the harvest field.
And where is our harvest field? – in ordinary places, right where we are, with
our neighbours, our friends, our workplace, at the shops, in cafés.
But how can pastors and leaders envision their people when there is a lack of
understanding of even the basics of our faith? Many Christians find it difficult
to answer the questions asked by SEAN’s Life to the Full course with any degree
of confidence; How do we discover the will of God in our lives? What is the true
meaning of repentance? What are the three enemies of the Christian and how do we
deal with these when they appear in our lives? What are the basic steps to
consider when reading the Bible? What are the four steps in leading someone to
Christ? At the end of this wonderful course people can answer these and more,
find the answers in their Bibles and apply these truths to their lives.
Training is a vision for life – not only for action but for our spiritual
health, a lifetime of knowing, understanding and applying the truths of God’s
Word, the new life within us that Jesus has invested in,
growing and bearing fruit.
Jeremiah 9 vv.23-24 reads: This is what the Lord says: ‘Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom, or
the strong man boast of his strength, or the rich man boast of his riches, but
let him who boasts, boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I
am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and
righteousness on earth, for in these I delight’, declares the Lord.
This relationship grows out of
knowing God. Knowing God comes from understanding His Word. So how can we train
and equip the Church
today? How can misplaced priorities, sometimes due to our hectic life style, be
corrected so that the Word of God becomes a natural part of our living instead
of something that has to be squeezed into the
end of the week if we are not too tired. One pastor who recently attended a SEAN
workshop said: ‘SEAN as a tool puts the Bible back into the hands of ordinary
people’ – quite a statement but true. Those
that have tasted the dynamic of SEAN have been hooked and all of a sudden the
Bible becomes a resource for life instead of a chore.
The SEAN workshop is on the road and available to come to your church or area to
explore these issues and explain how SEAN
can serve as a tool to meet this challenge.
The basic topics for the day, which
can be adapted, are:
Taking a closer look at Matthew
28 and 2 Timothy 2
Vision and mission
A church trained and mobilised –
the effects in our community
Essential ingredients to take us
beyond evangelism into serious training
What is SEAN?
How it can serve a vision
Objectives and expectations
Basic steps in setting up an
effective programmel Tutoring skills
Group dynamics
An opportunity to complete a
lesson of the Life of Christ Compendium and take part in a group discussion
If you would like a day of fellowship, to meet the SEAN team, and explore
the above issues together then please contact the SEAN office.
For those who already know and love
the SEAN material and are up and running or for those who have just started, we
can provide ongoing support, further tutor training – either at your church or
at our training centre at Weycroft Hall
TRAINING CD
In response to the many questions that I have often been asked about the SEAN
material I have put together a CD which contains mostly all you need to know
about TEE and SEAN and how to run a successful programme in your local Church
context.
The CD contains approximately 100
slides with voice commentary and notes pages to print out and at a small cost of
£5.00 you will be well equipped to begin SEAN and experience its effectiveness
in the lives of people in your Church.
