WHAT WE DO & LEARN TOGETHER – Practicing Resurrection!
Essential Practices Rooted & Grounded In Love For Powerfully Living Our Baptismal Covenant
Overview of the Six Transformational Leadership Practices
Shared Story
Public Narrative Framework
Will you proclaim by word and example the Good News of God in Christ?
Recovering the traditional Christian discipline of testimony
To proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom
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Shared Commitment
Identifying and Recruiting Leaders & Developing Relational Power
Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself?
Reframing the traditional Christian discipline of evangelism through connection to one another around core values
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Shared Community
Structuring for Strong Leadership Teams Practicing Discipleship
Will you continue in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in the prayers?
Rebuilding the foundational Christian art of spiritual formation through holy and effective structures of belonging
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Shared Strategy
Creativity for Developing Existing Resources & Using Godly Power to Engage God’s Mission
Will you persevere in resisting evil, and, whenever you fall into sin, repent and return to the Lord?
Rethinking the spiritual practice of partnering creatively with God’s mission for the reconciling and transformational journey of life together
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Shared Action
Measurable Outcomes in Action that Develops Leadership and Obedience to the Living into the Baptismal Covenant & Prophetic Role of God’s People
Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?
To respond to human need by loving service, to seek to transform unjust structures of society, and to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth
Reclaiming the essential prophetic identity of God’s people through the practice of doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with God
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Shared Guidance & Awakened Hearts
Effectively Increasing Parishes’ Capacity for Transformational Lay Leadership and Mission – Developing Spiritual Leaders for God’s Dream of a Just and Reconciled Creation
Let us join with those who are committing themselves to Christ and renew our own baptismal covenant!
Recreating the Christian spiritual discipline of corporate guidance, mentoring and coaching one another
MEI Outcomes
2017-9-5 MEI Year End report draft in-progress
Missional Projects Celebration Videos of Teams sharing their project stories, April 22, 2017
South Pittsburgh, TN | Sewanee, TN |
Cowan, TN | Decatur, AL |
Huntsville, AL | Sherwood, TN |
Cullman, AL | Murfreesboro, TN |
Fayettville, AL & |
Resources:
- 2016-6-18 MEI Taste & See Participant Guide
- 2016-9-1 MEI Coaching-Facilitating Guide
- 2016 MEI Foundations of Shared Leadership Participant Guide & 2016 MEI Foundations of Shared Leadership slideshow
- 2016 MEI Coaching Clinic #1 – Faith Rooted Organizing and Missional Engagement
- 2016 1st Mid-Program Participant Guide & Slides – Sewanee Region
- 2016 1st Mid-Program Participant Guide & Slides – Alabama region
- 2017-2-25 Sewanee-Nash 2nd Mid Program guide & slides
- 2017-3-3 Alabama region guide & slides
- 2017-4-22 Celebration bulletin & slides