BIG IDEA
Seeking Apostolic Genius for Renewal of the Church
Activating Six Critical Missional DNA Elements
Sixty percent or more of the population will not likely be reached by the prevailing models. Solutions will involve the activation of all of Jesus’ people as transformative agents in his Kingdom,relying upon six critical elements of historical missional movements described in “The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church” by Alan Hirsch,Strand Publishing,Australia,2006.
Future Travelers is an R&D / “skunk works” style initiative that is trying to pave the way for the church of the future with more comprehensive Gospel spreading and embedding capacities. Such exponentially effective movements will require leveraging the strengths of two church models:
- The prevailing large church – with platform,voice and resources,and
- The emerging incarnational approaches – with potential for reach,multiplication,people-movement.
Apollos Leadership has committed to contribute to Future Travelers as researchers and facilitators. All lessons will be made available online ( http://www.shapevine.com ) and in a book by Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson,“On the Verge”which will also be the theme book/concept for the Exponential 2011 conference,http://www.exponentialconference.org/ .
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