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Engage …

Engage …. SEND International. Visa issues?. Sometimes our work feels like …. mobilize God’s people. mobilize. engage the unreached. engage. establish reproducing churches. establish reproducing churches. dependence on God. culturally appropriate. research. creative. engage. engage.

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Engage …

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  1. Engage… SEND International

  2. Visa issues?

  3. Sometimes our work feels like…

  4. mobilize God’s people mobilize engage the unreached engage establish reproducing churches establish reproducing churches

  5. dependence on God culturally appropriate research creative engage engage priority of evangelism new works little or no opportunity to hear

  6. Perplexed in Paris • What are the core issues? • What are some key factors for engaging effectively? • How would you respond to Jim?

  7. Awareness • What are their needs? How can we be the “presence” of Jesus to them? • How do they investigate spiritual things? • What counts as “evidence”?

  8. Connect and Pray • Presence: Familiar; Attender; Friend; Trust • Proclamation: Dialog; Scripture/Story; Study; Follower • Maturity: Growing; Serving; Sharing; Leading; Reproducing

  9. Strategy • Developed in the local context • SEND provides guidance and values

  10. Expansion People group “…the largest group within which the Gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understanding or acceptance”

  11. Unreached “…a people group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize this people group.” Diaspora communities

  12. Opportunities and Discernment • 1 Samuel 26:1-11 • Opportunity ≠ Permission • So how do we know?

  13. Discerning Engagement • Group affirmation • Need/Access • Strategic opportunity • Capacity of SEND • Partnerships • Accessibility International Council authorizes engagement

  14. Engaging Human Needs • primacy of preaching the gospel • Jesus taught by precept and example our responsibility to the whole person

  15. Engaging Business • Important part of the overall strategy for establishing churches • Created another organization with which we partner

  16. Building Trust Since TRUST is such an important bedrock for collaboration, we’d like to expand on it further. Trust is built on many factors, including the following: • Understanding: We believe that the other partners understand us and our particular context. • Intent or motive: We believe that they are out for our best, for the accomplishment of agreed-upon Kingdom objectives. • Ability: We believe that they have the ability/competence to deliver on their promises. • Character: We believe that there is sufficient alignment of our moral and ethical qualities, of the attributes which make up our individual and corporate personalities. • Track record: We believe in their track record – so that together we actually can do more. (adapted from Cloud: The power of the other)

  17. E N G A G E Make an acrostic by filling in words which begin with each of the following letters. Make sure the words relate to the topic of “engaging the unreached”.

  18. Reflection time

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