Missional Community Leadership Assessment Interview

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Mar 20, 2008 in Church, Leadership, Ministry Design | 1 comment

As we continue to form around around the gospel, mission and community one of the questions we are asking is who is qualified to lead a missional community?  What are the characteristics, competencies and convictions of a MC leader?  Soma has provided us with their Missional Community Leadership Assessment Interview where they meet with individuals or couples if married to interview/assess 

1. Personal History/Stories
2. Spiritual Formation
3. Gospel Understanding
4. Identity in Christ
5. Marriage and Family
6. Mission
7. Teach-ability
8. Finances

What are your thoughts?  Any other areas you would assess?  

Download: Missional Community Leadership Assessment Interview (pdf)

Leading a Missional Community

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Mar 18, 2008 in Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design, Triperspectivalism | 8 comments

MISSIONAL COMMUNITIES DEFINED

A Missional Community (MC) is a committed core of believers who live out the mission of God together in a specific area or to a particular people group by demonstrating the gospel in tangible forms and declaring the gospel to others – both those who believe it and those who are being exposed to it.

To Clarify…A Missional Community is not PRIMARILY:

1. A Small Group
2. A Bible Study
3. A Support Group
4. A Social Activist Group
5. A Weekly Meeting

Download: Leading a Missional Community (pdf)

Document Includes:

How to establish a Missional Communities Direction including the 'mission' of the community, how the community should be led, MC responsibilities, activities and more.  Created from a gospel-centered, triperspectival angle.  

Credits: Soma Communities, edited for Kaleo by David Fairchild. 

Missional Communities as Extension of the Counseling Process

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Mar 17, 2008 in Church, Church Planting, Ministry Design | 0 comments

At Kaleo church , we call our home groups “missional communities,” (MC’s). The title serves as an intentional reminder of why we exist here on this earth: to love God and neighbor. Not surprisingly, this is also one of the healthiest assets to a formal counseling relationship. Gone is the separatist mentality of old-school counseling: “me and my therapist.” Gone is the stereo-typical break in relationship between counselor and counselee: “I have no relationship with you outside of my office.” In their place is the Scriptural portrait of “brother and sister,” “life-on-life,” and valued body members, all “in Christ.” Its a beautiful thing, yet strange to individualist (worldy) thinking.

In truth, this body relationship is foundational and is what “creates” one-another counseling for Christians. Its a full-on, Acts 2:44 model. And its also what moves us out to “counsel the world” together (as the title “missional” and “community” imply), for the community that lives under the cross also takes the cross to the ends of the earth together, as they are gripped and transformed by the pursuing love of Christ (As proof, Acts 2:47 tells us God added to their number daily those who were being saved.)

..continue reading post by Steve Trout: Missional Communities as Extension of the Counseling Process

Also read about developing counselors in community . 

Multiplying Missional Communities

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Mar 15, 2008 in Church, Leadership, Ministry Design | 2 comments

Here is Multiplying Missional Communities that expands on the Leadership Development in Community series focusing on the Missional Community Leader.  (Eugene gets credit for the this one.)  He writes regarding when/how to replicate:

Expect the Spirit to work in and through Community

As our communities gather rdinary people doing ordinary things with gospel intentionality, we should both pray for and expect the Spirit to work among us.  Asking for Wisdom: As your MC reaches 18-20 you should begin to pray for wisdom, guidance, and direction in earnest.

Organic Cues: Like those who disbelieved Peter stood at the oor (Acts 12) we can often pray without faith. When the right time to plant comes we can expect the spirit to use
organic cues or natural signs.

- Major life changes (i.e. –having a baby,)
– Mercy opportunities arising
– People moving into areas of the city your MC hoped or needed to plant anyway.

Stealing our Website: the greatest sign of flattery?

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Mar 15, 2008 in Church Technology, Ekklesia, Monk Dev | 6 comments

Over the weekend a company in Turkey must have decided they liked the Ekklesia 360 website.  

Our site:

Their site: [snip]REMOVED[/snip].

UPDATE: The owner of the site has taken it down.  Thanks for your help!