Mentorship
by the Numbers
by the Numbers
2016
What is the first year of the Backstory Preaching Mentorship?
In the Heart of the Message, this describes the empathetic connection between preacher and listener.
What is the human condition?
Examples are Webb telescope images, doing an art project, and listening to bird song.
What is cultivating awe, wonder, curiosity, and gratitude?
Seasonal sermon prep and planning, spiritual reflection sessions, fabulous guest speakers, and courses.
What is The Collective+?
10
What is the number of Mentorship graduating classes?
A sermon doesn't doesn't have to be great art to be this.
What is an effective sermon?
This is preparing your sermon prep space with the reverence of preparing liturgical space.
What is seeking respite in sermon prep?
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What is the mentorship grads' perpetual discount code?
221
What is the number of Mentorship graduates?
This stage of sermon prep is equally formational and informational.
What is Meditatio?
This is calling a friend to do the post-mortem after a sermon didn't go as hoped.
What is trusting you're loved no matter what?
This is where graduates sign up for 1:1's and 360's.
What is the Mentorship Grads' Group?
23
What is the number of 360s conducted in the class of 2025?
This describes the value found in the composition and offering of the sermon.
What is a sermon appraisal?
This is preaching the text as it is, not as we wish it were.
What is proclaiming the gospel no matter what?
These are the people to ask to create BsP resources.
Who are Meredith Crigler and Lisa Cressman?
25
What is the current number of Mentors?
This part of the Heart of the Message describes the way God hopes the world will be.
What is the Invitation to Transformation?
This is a regular review of your Trust with a spiritual director or preaching buddy.
What is being accountable?
What worked; challenged or surprised; do differently?
What is an examen?