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Made For More
Four weeks on the gap between how a person is living and what they were made to do. End it on a serving sign-up rather than on a challenge.
Sermon series ideas · Purpose and calling
Purpose and Calling Sermon Series Ideas and Graphics
Purpose series fill rooms and change very little, because the whole thing usually ends on encouragement and there isn't an assignment behind it.
Each idea here ends somewhere specific: a team, a class, a gifting assessment, a conversation with a leader.
The work in the gallery is ours. We’ve designed 12 approved pieces that match this topic for churches around the country, and you’re seeing the most recent of them.
The ideas
6 Purpose and calling series to steal
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Called
A series arguing that calling covers ordinary work, not just ministry. It reaches the person who'd assumed this topic wasn't for them.
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Gifted
Weeks on spiritual gifts with an assessment people complete in the room. The assessment card is the piece that has to be well designed.
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Your Assignment
A short arc on the specific work in front of a person right now. Concrete, and it doesn't have the vagueness that sinks most purpose series.
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On Mission
A series that ties personal calling to what the church is doing this year. Good the month before a serving or missions push that is already on the calendar.
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Ordinary
Three weeks on faithfulness in an unremarkable life. It's the counterweight to every purpose series that's promised something bigger.
Real work
Purpose and calling graphics we designed
Approved pieces from real churches. Title slides, promo sets, print and apparel, at each piece's true proportions because we don't crop work to fit a grid.
Graphics like these come with every plan. See how your Squad’s graphics team works or check what a plan costs.
Planning
What To Build and When
Decide the ending before the first slide. A purpose series that hasn't got an assignment attached is the most common wasted month on a church calendar.
If there's an assessment, print it. People fill out a card in the room and they won't open a link you sent on Sunday afternoon.
Every other topic we’ve built is on the sermon series ideas hub.
Purpose and calling
Questions Churches Ask
How long should a purpose series run?
Four weeks, ending on the weekend the next step is offered.
What keeps a purpose series from feeling generic?
Naming real roles and real openings in your own church rather than talking about calling in the abstract, which nobody acts on.
Does a purpose series work for guests?
It draws well, though the follow-up has to be gentler for someone who's on their second visit than for a member of ten years.
Want the artwork handled?
Tell us the series and the date. Your Squad builds the slides, the social set and the print, and you'll spend that week on the message instead of on the artwork.
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