Becoming Leaders of Shalom

Free 12-day Online Course!

Shalom is a beautiful word. It means "peace." But it is about so much more than mere absence of hostility. Shalom is about wholeness. Well-being. Fullness of life.

Shalom is what God wants for the world. Shalom is also what God wants for you as a leader.

Unfortunately, many pastors and ministry leaders lack shalom in their own lives and, as a result, their churches fail to experience the shalom of God. Consequently, they fail to bring shalom into the world.

But it doesn't have to be like that. You can lead from a place of wholeness, well-being, and fullness of life. And you can lead you ministry to bring God's wholeness, well-being, and fullness of life into the world.

Hi, I'm Markus!

I know what it's like to feel exhausted and disoriented as a pastor.

You work so hard to do the ministry to which God has called you. Preaching. Teaching. Casting vision. Caring for your people. Trying so hard to make a difference in the world.

But so often you feel like you're constantly on the verge of burning out and giving up.

Having worked with lots of pastors and churches, I want you to know that it doesn't have to be that way. You can guide your church to bring the healing and wholeness of God into the world as you experience the wholeness of God in your own life.

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Becoming Leaders of Shalom

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13 Lessons

A 12-Day Roadmap to Help You Begin the Journey

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Who is this course for?

Pastors

You are working hard doing what you learned in seminary and in the books you're reading. But there seems to be so little transformation in your church and community. This course will chart a path for you to help you become a leader who both generates and experiences God's wholeness.

Ministry Staff

Maybe you're a missions pastor. Or a youth or children's pastor. Or a Director of Adult Education. Or a worship leader. All of these roles call for leadership of shalom. This course will show you how you can bear God's wholeness in your unique area of ministry.

Lay Leaders

You're a follower of Jesus and you love your church. You care deeply for the people in your church and for your community. And maybe you can see that your pastor is struggling. You, too, can be a leader of shalom. This course will set you on the path of shalom leadership.

4 Stages, 12 Days

To be the kind of leader this world needs, you need to:

Lead with Clarity on the Church's Reality

Days 1-4

The church is experiencing a season of deep disorientation. The first step is simply to name the reality of that disorientation. This stage will give you language to help you understand our disorientation, as well as how to talk to your people about it.

Lead with Clarity on the Mission

Days 5-6

Why does the church exist? What is it actually good for? This stage will help you clarify both God's mission and the church's mission. And, yes, it's all about the restoration of shalom.

Lead When You Don't Have the Answers

Days 7-8

The experience of shalom--in us and around us--can seem to elusive in these disorienting times! As leaders of shalom, we need to know how to lead even when we feel lost and don't have any answers.

Lead From a Place of Inner Wholeness

Days 9-12

It's great to understand our reality, know the mission of God, and be able to lead in the midst of disorientation. But if our hearts aren't united to Jesus, we'll still be lost. This stage explores how we can grow into people of shalom in our inner lives so that in our outer lives we can lead our people to be restorers of shalom.

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Becoming Leaders of Shalom

A 12-Day Roadmap to Help You Begin the Journey

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What you'll get...

Thirteen videos filled with valuable content
A total of two hours of informative material
Engaging discussion questions provided for every lesson

What you WON't get...

Charged! (Get it? Because it's FREE!)

Endorsements

Matt Ziprick

Pastor, Bethel Lutheran Church

Markus Watson is a leader of change and thought. He asks the right kind of questions and invites others to join in the art of listening and wondering. If you find yourself leaking passion and purpose, this course can reignite you to join Jesus in his mission.

Amy Sherman

Author, Kingdom Calling and Agents of Flourishing

Markus Watson is a well-read, thoughtful, and experienced-in-the-trenches leader. This course should help Christian leaders face the complexities of our exilic life and stay true to the call to love King Jesus and join him in his renewing work.

Phuc Luu

Author of "Jesus of the East: Reclaiming the Gospel for the Wounded

Dr. Markus Watson provides an extensive curriculum showing how to navigate the precarious journey from the place of isolated uncertainty to one of relentless practice and exploration. This is where church leadership is born of consistent connections to the divine community that God calls us to participate in and Dr. Watson helps us to commit to this mission.

You can love leadership again!

Ministry leadership in the 21st century can be exhausting and discouraging. This 12-day roadmap will help you begin the journey toward becoming the kind of leader who makes a difference in your church and in the world--a leader of shalom.

No one wants to lead from brokeness

Leading from brokeness is not only exhausting and debilitating for you, the leader. It also keeps the world from being what it was meant to be. If you and I fail to be leaders of shalom, the world won't experience the healing and wholeness it needs and your church will continue in its fruitlessness.

Free

Becoming Leaders of Shalom

A 12-Day Roadmap to Help You Begin the Journey

Get the Free Course Now!

Contents of the Course

Take a sneak peek at the Introduction and Day 1!

Introduction

Preview

Day 1

1. Uncharted Territory: Embracing the Reality of Discontinous Change

Preview

Day 2

2. The Wilderness Experience: The Pain and Hope of Exile

Day 3

3. From Vulnerability to Strength: The Strange Advantage of Disequilibrium

Day 4

4. Journeying in the In-Between: Living in the Tension of Liminality

Day 5

5. Restoring Shalom: Discovering the Mission of God

Day 6

6. Agents of Shalom: The Church's Mission of Comprehensive Well-Being

Day 7

7. Adaptive Leadership: Guiding Your Church When You've Got No Answers

Day 8

8. Trial and Error: Embracing the Learning Journey of Experimentation

Day 9

9. Letting Go of Ego: The Kind of Church Leadership the World Doesn't Need

Day 10

10. Leading From Wholeness: The Kinds of Church Leaders the World Truly Needs

Day 11

11. Rooted and Fruitful: Developing Healthy Leadership Through a Rule of Life

Day 12

12. Next Steps on the Path to Renewal: Envision a New Future for Your Church and Leadership