Resources

Gospel Community forming, planning & living

Living in god's story
Mark Galpin

Looking at the overarching story of the Bible, Mark Galpin demonstrates the inter-connectedness of the whole of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation and the holistic and integral nature of the mission of God.

Step into God's story
The whole story - handbook

This is a pause button on the treadmill of the everyday.
This is a portal into an ancient time.
This is an opportunity to re-enter your own world with an entirely new perspective.
This is a STORY EXPERIENCE.

Gospel community foundations study
Gospel | identity | life | Rhythm

We are conceived in the church and called to live together. 

GC Leader pack
Becoming a gc leader and starting a gc

What is a GC Leader, Role, Practices, Time, Qualifications, Process, Theological Clarity, Assessment, Development, First 6 Months.

Called Together:
A guide to forming missional communities

Filled with practical guidance for leaders and everyday people, it will guide you into a deeper and more deliberate experience of being the church together.

Sent together:
how the gospel sends leaders to start missional communities

A field guide for leaders and training guide for those called to start missional communities.

multiply together:
a guide to sending and coaching missional communities

Offers the leaders of leaders and the overseers of communities the theological vision, practical wisdom, and stories of how to coach and support a movement of gospel-centred communities on mission.

Gospel Community Leaders' Field Guide

Missional (Gospel) Community Leaders’ Field Guide – Soma Australia Version.

Gospel Community Pillars

8 essential pillars for leading a Gospel Community

Loving one another

A list of ways to love each other in community, based on scripture.

Flourishing in the missionary identity

Prayer-centred, Christ-centred & God-centred mission.

Flourishing in the family identity

Vital characteristics of family in God’s kingdom.

Mission Planning Sheet

Think through your mission idea simply and clearly.

DNA - discover, nurture, act

DNA Guide
(Anchor)

DNA Guide – This guide is Anchor Church’s version of the Soma DNA Guide. It’s designed to help equip every person who is committed to a DNA group (or Gospel Triplet) with the basics of ’gospel shepherding’.

dna booklet
(anchor)

DNA Booklet – This is the shortened version of the DNA Guide, also by Anchor Church.

Studies

Ephesians
How Jesus creates a new people in a new world

Jonah
How we are God's mission while on god's mission

the whole story - handbook
step into god's story

This is a pause button on the treadmill of the everyday.
This is a portal into an ancient time.
This is an opportunity to re-enter your own world with an entirely new perspective.
This is a STORY EXPERIENCE.

Making space
Exploring proverbs for what matters most

Do you know what’s most important in life? Do you feel too busy to make time for those things? This Bible study will help you identify what matters to God and what matters to you as a follower of Christ and will help you incorporate those activities into your busy life.

Kids

The Jesus storybook bible

The multiple award-winning Jesus Storybook Bible tells the Story beneath all the stories in the Bible. It takes the whole Bible to tell this Story.

Story of God for Kids

Ages 6 and up

Sermon guides

soma basics booklet

Follow along with the Sermon series, ‘Soma Basics’ 2021.

Books

Enjoying God
Experience the power and love of God in everyday life

saturate
being disciples of jesus in the everyday stuff of life

gospel fluency
Speaking the truths of jesus into the everyday stuff of life

Evangelism in a skeptical world
How to make the unbelievable news about Jesus more believable

How to talk about Jesus without being that guy
Personal evangelism in a skeptical world