This self-guided course consists of an introduction and four sessions of content. It will open at your enrollment and be available to you for 30 days. You can work  at your own pace during this time. Each session’s content provides short videos, online reflections, quizzes, and reading assignments. The course textbook is provided in PDF format.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to Spiritual Formation as a Leader

    • Welcome to Spiritual Formation

    • Course Overview

    • Course Textbook - Upside-Down Leadership

    • Spiritual Formation Overview

    • Reflection: Learning Goals

    • Reading Assignment: Introduction

    • Book Introduction Survey
  • 2

    What is Spiritual Formation?

    • Defining Spiritual Formation

    • Scriptural Definition for Leaders

    • Luke 7:36-50 Survey

    • The Love of God Discussion Follow-Up

    • Reflection: Upside Down

    • Understanding that God Loves Us

    • Keeping Love at a Distance

    • Reading Assignment: Principle 1

    • Assignment: Drawing Closer

    • Being Loved Allows Us to Love

    • We are Sinners in Need of God's Grace

    • Reading Assignment: Principle 2

    • Reflection: Focusing Only on Results

    • Inability to Love Self

    • Healthy Self-Worth
  • 3

    Positioning Ourselves for Love

    • Positioning Ourselves for Love

    • Two Invitations

    • The Invitation...

    • Reading Assignment: Principle 3

    • Positioning Survey

    • Reading Assignment: Principle 4

    • Assignment: Thinking Small

    • The Journey

    • Reflection: The Journey

    • Reading Assignment: Principle 5

    • The Response
  • 4

    Process of Receiving Love

    • Two Questions

    • Two Questions Survey

    • Spiritual Formation Revisited

    • Reading Assignment: Principle 6

    • Assignment: Critical Points

    • Reading Assignment: Principle 7

    • Can Love Be Too Small?

    • Reflection: Someone Who Loved Little

    • God's Grace

    • Reading Assignment: Principle 8

    • Fellowship of Suffering

    • Assignment: Receiving His Grace
  • 5

    Go in the Way of Peace

    • Another Benediction

    • Faith Has Saved You

    • Reading Assignment: Principle 9

    • Become a Nobody Survey

    • Go in Peace

    • Reflection: Go in Peace

    • Allowing God to Make Us Whole

    • What We Take With Us

    • Reading Assignment: Principle 10

    • Assignment: Embrace Shame

    • Reading Assignment: Conclusion

    • God Will Provide a House
  • 6

    Next Steps...

    • Additional Resources

    • Course Survey: Spiritual Formation as a Leader

    • Congratulations!