Seminars
ECC Offers 3 Seminars
Holy Chaos – How to Walk with God in a World of Turmoil
Do you ever feel like the world has gone crazy? Do you ever struggle with how God is working in your life? Do you ever wonder if he is even working in your life? Following up on his book Holy Chaos, this seminar expounds on those themes and takes the church through the process of charting a course in this uncertain world. When individuals or churches find themselves in times of uncertainty, God’s work can be symbolically summarized in one of two ways. He is either moving or he is waiting. This way of viewing God goes back to the Garden of Eden. God created, and God rested. Through this seminar, Mark Edge helps a church accomplish four results:
1. Discovering or rediscovering practical ways God’s people can go about the work of identifying what God is up to.
2. Learn to love the God of the journey more than the journey itself.
3. Internalize the reality that Jesus’ prayer was correct: “Your will be done” is superior to “My will be done.”
4. Grow to the point where God is enough.
Making Meaning of Monday: Worshiping God at Work and Leveraging the Workplace for Evangelism
For better or worse, the workplace has become the hub of culture.
It is the number one influence on people as they mature and grow into adulthood. (Click here to read more on why the workplace is the new formation hub.)
The majority of adult Americans will spend most of their waking hours in the workplace before they reach retirement age. In 2014, Gallup made news releasing their latest findings that the average American worked 47 hours a week.
• 47 hours a week
• A major investment
• 47 hours will shape the way one views the world
Mark Edge retired from full-time ministry and founded The WorkEdge Company in 2013. For the past ten years, he has traveled throughout the United States working with employees and leaders from companies including Tyson, JBS-Pilgrims, Keeco/Hollander, Sherwin Williams, DaVita Inc., Encompass Health, OHL, Chick-fil-A, Dairy Queen as well as public schools and non-profit organizations. Mark couples this experience in the workplace with his years of serving as a missionary and evangelist to teach churches how to take advantage of the most strategic mission field today–the workplace.
Why not treat the workplace as your mission field? Your members can organically use their time showing Jesus in the workplace and ministering in his name.
How to be the church in a Mentally Ill and Emotionally Broken World
In the preface of a recent book, a woman wrote that mental illness was a tremendous challenge that the church must address. Often this challenge is a secret. The woman’s own mother had tried to commit suicide years before. The mother’s attempt illustrated her point well—the mother was the wife of one of America’s most influential (and well-known) evangelical pastors.
Jean Twenge, the respected professor of child psychology, wrote that Gen Z is the most “mentally ill” generation in history—and she reported that before Covid. Mental illness has always existed in the church, but it was often hidden. That is not the case anymore; it is too hard to hide.
What can the church do? The answer is plenty. This seminar equips your church for ministry.