Hard-won lessons and our most prized insights.
For over two decades, we’ve been on and continue on the path of sharpening our skills in all areas of ministry to ensure that we can reach and disciple as many people as is possible.
We’ve gathered together some of our best practices and ministry wisdom here, free for you to download and adapt to your context. It’s an ever-growing resource, so be sure to check in regularly to see what’s new.
We believe that compassion and biblical justice are not optional extras in the Christian life – they are inevitable by-products of the gospel working its way in and through us as the church.
To this end, Common Good is dedicated to equipping the local church to better serve and love our city. For more great resources and inspiration for church leaders, please visit the Common Good site here.
Click here for a bunch of resources to equip Christ-followers to care, support and invest in families in the first thousand days of their lives.
We believe that the next generation aren’t only the future church, they’re a valued and significant part of the church today.
Passing our faith from one generation to the next is a sacred and scary privilege. Our Kids Ministry Leader, Brad Anderson has some really helpful tips on how to do this effectively. You can listen to his message here.
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Over the years, we grew from one congregation and a handful of leaders, to ten congregations and hundreds of leaders and staff spread across the city to a family of independent local autonomous churches. Here, we’ve compiled our best operational and leadership development resources from the multi-congregational season.
Please note that we have moved to a family of churches with independent local churches connected along relational and theological lines so these resources do not necessarily reflect our current practices.
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A host of helpful templates and hard-won lessons we’ve learned along the way.
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Preparing well for the lifelong adventure of marriage is a worthwhile investment. While there are excellent resources out there, below are a few of ours including our pre-marriage manual created to help build strong foundations for engaged couples or for those exploring marriage.
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We believe that big things happen in life groups. That’s why we’re passionate about multiplying our mid-week groups and making sure as many people as possible get to experience the life-giving power of community that can be found there.
Equipping and encouraging our Life Group Leaders is a vital part of this ministry. To this end, we’ve developed Life Group Training that includes a Training Manual and a series of training videos too for new and potential small group leaders.
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Note, these downloads do not reflect our current practice as a single autonomous church but have been used historically in the Common Ground story during periods of strong growth.
Every day of the week is sacred – but Sundays provide us with the unique opportunity to gather together to worship God, celebrate his goodness and leave empowered and equipped for the week ahead.
Instead of primarily focusing on Christ-followers (at the expense of seekers), or only speaking to seekers (at the expense of Christ-followers), we try to serve and impact both.
