Episcopal Church Foundation Vital Practices

Christian Formation

Beyond Sundays
By Wayne Schwab
John, a senior warden and computer programmer, finds a colleague, Tim, stealing his innovations.
Christian Formation: Building the Church
By Linda Grenz
It’s a typical Sunday morning at your church and you notice visitors coming in the door. You’re eager to welcome them — and hope they’ll become part of your church family. What do you do?
Formation for Vestries: Where Equipping the Saints
By Gary Herbst
If a church is going to grow, it better have the vestry on board, for it is the place where visions are fleshed out and the work of equipping the saints for ministry can originate.
Formation Lessons from the Bible
By ECF
A lifelong process, Christian formation involves many things: baptism, church school, prayer, Bible study, life experiences, taking what is learned in church into the world, and being in community with other Christians. What can be learned from those who went before us?
Formation Through Total Ministry
By Dick Snyder
In congregations that have adopted — or are considering — a program of Total Ministry, (sometimes called mutual ministry, or ministry of the baptized) the church is working at becoming a ministering community rather than a community gathered around a minister.
Why Get Fired Up?
By Bill Tully
Why get fired up about “Christian formation?”