Ecclesiology

Timothy Workshop
Course: Ecclesiology

Time of Class:

During our coaching sessions

Reading - 9 Marks of Healthy Church – Mark Dever

1. Preface, Introduction, and Mark 1

2. Marks 2 & 3

3. Marks 4 & 5

4. Marks 6 & 7

5. Marks 8, 9, and Appendix 1

Linking Strategies

Developing Linking Strategies

Using Keller’s work on linking strategies (Church Planting Manuel – Designing Linking Strategies 5.5 & 7.1), given the tentative profile that we do possess, let’s list as many ways to connect with North Valley Attractionally and Incarnationally.

Attractionally (Coming to Us) : If a corporate gathering were to draw people the right way, what would it look like?

• Note the tension between reasonable accommodation and consumerism. Think in terms of reasonable accommodation.
• How would you change what we do at Oasis Redlands to be more seeker sensible? In what ways can we “speak” most clearly to the irreligious and the Christ-follower?
• What would the service look like from start to finish? What elements would you include within that time frame?

Incarnationally (Going to Them): List as many ways to most effectively engage people by going to them:

• Think in terms of developing this core group and our future official launch. How do you draw people in?
• Think about clear and effective steps from what we do and how it will connect people to the gospel. For example, if we put on a barbeque for people in a park, will that be the best utilization of our time and resources? Are we only feeding some people that we’ll never see again? Are there ways to serve our community and build relationships? (Our IAP adoption program is a great example of serving the community and connecting relationally with them).
• Again, how will any one event move people along the continuum of faith?

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Meeting Notes

Meeting
March 16th, 2008

• We have a name: Oasis North Valley
• We have a website (in the works)
• We have a probable buyer
• We have a potential worship leader/technician
• We begin a Coaching Program with the candidates - HERE
• Lists
• Who will be the database gatekeeper?
• Contacting our partners.
• Securing a Building.
• Broad Format of the Core Group up to Launch: 5:1 5 regular meetings to 1 preview service.
• Catalyst Groups: 3:1. Prior to the launch of our Sunday service and small group ministry, we will meet as one collective group on Sunday evenings tentatively starting in April. This large group will separate into three smaller groups whose sole purpose is to engage the North Fontana community at least one time every three weeks in specific ways to promote our pre-launch group/future Sunday morning launch. The Catalyst Groups are these:

o Group 1 - Tim, Tommy, Chris (Jake)
o Group 2 - Marc, Eric, Scott (Jake)
o Group 3 - Steve, Debbie, Claudia, Cassie (Jake)

• Flier Production?

• Graphics?

Missiology Syllabus

Timothy Workshop

Course: Missiology

Time of Class:

8:30-8:45 – Prayer
8:45-9:50 - Workshop

Readings and Assignments

Week 1 – The Nature and Necessity of Missiology

Readings:

• Church Planting Manuel – Doing Neighborhood Research 4.1- 4.2 (Keller and Thompson)
• Planting Churches in a Postmodern Age – Redeveloping a Missional Mindset for North America (Stetzer)

Assignments: Using The Church Planting Manuel (4.2), break up into your Catalyst Groups and establish a plan and a time to do some initial group ethnographic research. Put your findings together in a “people profile.” Have this profile to be shared on Week 3.

Week 2 – The Nature and Necessity of Contextualiztion

Readings:

• Radical Reformission – going to seminary at the grocery store (Driscoll)
• The Forgotten Ways – missional incarnational impulse (Hirsh)
• Breaking the Missional Code – Contextualization: Making the Code Part of Your Strategy (Stetzer)

Assignment: People Profile continued.

Week 3 – The Challenge of Missions in North America

Readings:

• The Culturally Savvy Christian – Communicating in a Culture Like Ambassadors
• Planting Churches in a Postmodern Age – Emerging Postmodern Generations (Stetzer)

Assignments: People Profiles done.

Week 4 - Personal Missiology

Readings:

• Church Planting Manuel – Designing Linking Strategies 5.5 & 7.1 (Keller and Thompson)
• Becoming a Contagious Christian – (Chapters 7 & 8) (Hybels)

Discussion: What kind of linking strategies fits the people profile for North Fontana?