What if you stopped seeing your main job as doing work or motivating your staff to do work, and started seeing it as giving people tools to work–helping people missionally engage and have gospel conversations with those around them? What “tools” could you create that make it easy for congregants to serve their neighbors and city…tools to help them live on mission? How can we expect our people to make disciples if we don’t provide the tools and the platform for them to carry out their mission?

In this month’s Pastor Resource Call, Eric Swanson will help us understand what a ministry platform is and how to practically set one in motion in the local church context.

Eric has a passion for engaging churches worldwide in the needs and dreams of their communities toward the end of spiritual and societal transformation. He is a UC Berkeley grad and holds a DMin in Transformational Leadership in the Global City from BGU. He served with Cru for twenty-five years before joining the staff of Leadership Network where he works with scores of missional churches around North America. He is an adjunct professor at Denver Seminary and is co-author of The Externally Focused Church (Group, 2004), The Externally Focused Life (Group, 2009), The Externally Focused Quest (Jossey-Bass, 2010) , and To Transform a City (Zondervan, 2010), and numerous articles on churches that are transforming their communities. Since 1999 Eric has also been working with Tango, currently working on a mobile-digital platform designed for life change and since 2001 with Leadership Network as a missional specialist.