Evangel Dean Basic Training Manual-English

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IV. Team Exercises

All page numbers in the table below refer to Ripe for Harvest .

Reading Assignments, Team Discussions, and Team Worksheets

Session Team Exercise

Exercise Purpose

Session 1 Exercise 1

Seeing the Big Picture: Establishing

• Comprehend the role of the Church in God’s Kingdom- building effort. • Drafting a brief narrative of the history and origin of your church plant team and its call. • Mapping out what the target area, demographics, and resources available for this work. • Do a SWOT analysis on the internal strengths and

RA: Preface: How to

Use This Guidebook (pp. 11-22) RA: Introduction: Sacred Roots, Church Planting, and the Great Tradition (pp. 23-28) RA: A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future (pp. 83-86) RA: Church Planting Models (pp. 87-89) RA: What Is a Church? (pp. 90-92) TD: Seeing the Big Picture: Establishing Context (11 questions, pp. 81-82) RA: Seeing the Big Picture: Defining Values/Vision (p. 95-99) TW: Values Ranking Worksheet (Individual) (p. 100) TW: Values Ranking Worksheet (Team) (p. 101) TD: Seeing the Big Picture: Defining Values/Vision (5 questions, p. 102) TP: Team Prayer

the Context (pp. 79-92)

weaknesses and external opportunities and threats you will face in this effort.

Session 1 Exercise 2

Seeing the Big Picture: Establishing Values and Vision (pp. 95-102)

• Dialogue about possible

pictures of what we believe God has put on our hearts to achieve.

• Discuss the various

alternative values openly and carefully together.

• Reaching consensus

together on our shared values, bringing them together clearly and concisely. • Craft a vision statement that

describes what we hope to see God do in our effort.