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Exploring Your Context

Exploring Your Context . Social, Political, Economic, Cultural & Spiritual (SPECS) Analysis . Another tool of analysing your church’s life and witness is through analysing the different interrelated structures of your immediate community. These structures can be categorized into: Social

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Exploring Your Context

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  1. Exploring Your Context Social, Political, Economic, Cultural & Spiritual (SPECS) Analysis

  2. Another tool of analysing your church’s life and witness is through analysing the different interrelated structures of your immediate community. These structures can be categorized into: • Social • Political • Economic • Cultural • Spiritual

  3. Some of the possible questions can be found in the succeeding pages relating to each of the five areas, offered to help you amass data about every aspect of community life.

  4. Analysing the Data Gathered • Through the following sets of questions, we analyse the history, structures, values and directions of the community in study: • what experiences in the past have shaped the future • what have been the major stages through which the area has passed? • what patterns of development can be observed? • what have been the key turning points?

  5. what are the major structures which influence the area? • what are the major economic structures which determine how the community organises resources? • what are the major political structures which determine how the community organises power? • what are the major social structures which determine how the community organises relationships? • what are the major cultural structures which determine how the community organises meaning?

  6. what are the key values operative in the area? • what/who are the carriers of values in the area – people, role models, institutions? • examples of various sets of values: age/youth; individualism/community; competition/co-operation; freedom/law and order; progress/stability; innovation/tradition • what is the future direction of the area? • what are the most significant trends revealed in the present situation? • if things keep going in the future the way they are now, what will be the situation in ten years’ time? • what are the sources of creativity and hope for the future in the present situation? Back

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