Gospel Shaped Worship Leader’s Guide (Gospel Shaped Church)

by Jared C. Wilson

Publishers:

The Good Book Company; Gospel Coalition

, 2015

Overview

Gospel Shaped Church is a new curriculum from The Gospel Coalition that will help whole congregations pause and think carefully and prayerfully about the kind of church they are called to be.

This seven-week whole-church curriculum explores what it means to be a worshiping community. The Leader’s Guide contains everything you need to lead this flexible course.

At each and every moment of our lives, we are all living in a way that gives worth to something. For many people, their ideas of worth are centered on themselves, their family or their job. But for those who have discovered the grace of God in Jesus Christ a massive change has taken place. By the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, we are enabled to start worshiping the one true God instead of the many false Gods we fill our lives with.

What is true for us as individuals is true for us as a gathered community of God’s people. We discover in the Bible that a church that is centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ will be shaped by the gospel of Jesus Christ. And a church shaped by the gospel of Jesus Christ will see that its true service of worship is conducted both inside the formal gathering of believers and outside it as well.

This flexible resource will train your whole church through teaching, preaching, daily reading and small-group Bible study and discussion or any combination of those elements. The overall aim is that your church will embark on a journey to discover the kind of people they should be as they are shaped by the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Works alongside the Gospel Shaped Worship Video and the Gospel Shaped Worship Handbook for use by church members.

Key Features

• Provides a seven-week whole-church curriculum.
• Explores what it means to be a worshiping community.
• Contains everything you need to lead this flexible course.

Contents

• Series Preface
• Introduction
• Make the most of Gospel Shaped Worship
• How to use Gospel Shaped Worship
• Downloads
• Session 1: What is worship?
• Session 2: The foundation of worship
• Session 3: Worship and God’s word
• Session 4: The worship service
• Session 5: Why and how we pray
• Session 6: Developing a culture of grace
• Session 7: Being church
• The Complete Series

Product Details

• Title: Gospel Shaped Worship Leader’s Guide
• Author: Jared C. Wilson
• Series: Gospel Shaped Church
• Publishers: The Good Book Company, Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2025
• Pages: 156
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Worship › Study and teaching
• ISBNs: 9781909919204, 1910307912, 9781910307915, 1909919209
• Resource ID: LLS:GOSSHPWORSHIPLEAD
• Resource Type: text.monograph.workbook
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-18T18:30:13Z

About Jared C. Wilson

Jared C. Wilson is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Spurgeon College, author in residence at Midwestern Seminary, general editor of For The Church, and director of the Pastoral Training Center at Liberty Baptist Church in Kansas City, MO. He is the author of numerous books, including The Gospel-Driven Church, The Imperfect Disciple, and Supernatural Power for Everyday People. In ministry for twenty-five years, Wilson has also written numerous church resources and Bible studies, including Ruth: Redemption for the Broken, as well as contributed the study notes for 1 and 2 Peter and Jude in the ESV Gospel Transformation Bible. He is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN.