2023 Evangel Gathering - Friendship and Flourishing for Missions

FrontI
Table of Contents5
Welcome9
Speaker Biographies11
Devotionals14
Devotional 1: A World to Win, 1 John 4.9-1016
Devotional 2: Christ’s Secret Weapon for Missions: Co-laborers Together, Philippians 1.27-2817
Plenaries21
Plenary 1: Missions-DNA: Instructions for Survival, Development, and Reproduction23
Plenary 2: Friendships That Flourish for Missions, Acts 13.1-327
Workshops33
Workshop 1: Flourishing with Friends: How Spiritual Classics Can Help Us Finish Well in Ministry35
Workshop 2: Reading Spiritual Classics Together: How to Facilitate a Sacred Roots Study Group61
Appendix69
Appendix 1: Study Group Thrive Plan71
Appendix 2: “Engage Scripture Like an Augustine?”71
Appendix 3: About the Sacred Roots Project73
Appendix 4: Glossary of Terms for Sacred Roots Evangel Gathering73
Appendix 5: Ten Key Cross-Cultural Church Planting Principles75
Appendix 6: Advancing the Kingdom in the City: Multiplying Congregations with a Common Identity77
Appendix 7: Christus Victor: An Integrated Vision for the Christian Life and Witness79
Appendix 8: The Church Leadership Paradigm: The Case for Biblical Leadership82
Appendix 9: The Interaction of Class, Culture, and Race82
Appendix 10: Quality and Numbers: Multiplying Disciples through Legitimate Representation83
Appendix 11: Discipling the Faithful: Establishing Leaders for the Urban Church83
Appendix 12: Fit to Represent: Multiplying Disciples of the Kingdom of God85
Appendix 13: From Before to Beyond Time: The Plan of God and Human History85
Appendix 14: Going Forward by Looking Back: Toward an Evangelical Retrieval of the Great Tradition87
Appendix 15: How to PLANT a Church93
Appendix 16: In Christ101
Appendix 17: Jesus of Nazareth: The Presence of the Future101
Appendix 18: Let God Arise! The Seven “A’s” of Seeking the Lord and Entreating His Favor103
Appendix 19: Living in the Already and the Not Yet Kingdom103
Appendix 20: The Nicene Creed with Biblical Support105
Appendix 21: Once Upon a Time: The Cosmic Drama through a Biblical Narration of the World107
Appendix 22: Overview of Church Plant Planning Phases109
Appendix 23: A Schematic for a Theology of the Kingdom and the Church111
Appendix 24: Steps to Equipping Others111
Appendix 25: The Way of Wisdom113
Appendix 26: The Apostles’ Creed115
Appendix 27: Apostolicity: The Unique Place of the Apostles in Christian Faith and Practice115
Appendix 28: Ethics of the New Testament: Living in the Upside-Down Kingdom of God117
Appendix 29: The Method of the Master: Faithful Servants Representin’117
Appendix 30: Paul’s Team Members: Companions, Laborers, and Fellow Workers119
Appendix 31: Paul’s Partnership Theology: Our Union with Christ and Partnership in Kingdom Ministry121
Appendix 32: Traditions (Paradosis)123
Appendix 33: Understanding Leadership as Representation: The Six Stages of Formal Proxy133
Appendix 34: The Theology of Christus Victor133
Appendix 35: Story: The Crux of Revelation135
Appendix 36: Substitute Centers to a Christ-Centered Vision: Goods and Effects Which Our Culture Substitutes as the Ultimate Concern135
Appendix 37: Imagining a Unified, Connected C1 Church Planting Movement137
Appendix 38: Representin’: Jesus as God’s Chosen Representative137
Appendix 39: The Story of God: Our Sacred Roots139
Back139

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