Refine Your Defining Vision

Refine Your Defining Vision
Ministry Design Module 3
©2011 E. Stanley Ott: The Vital Churches Institute  901 Allegheny Ave  Pittsburgh, PA 15233  412.246.4847  www.vitalchurchesinstitute.com

Write down as much of your
congregation’s vision statement as
you can. It may be called a mission
statement or a purpose statement.

Reﬂectively-Practiced
Principle-Patterned
“Gathered-Scattered” Attentive
Need-Responsive
Disciple-Directed
Biblically-Based
Spirit-Driven
“Gathered-Scattered” Attentive
Reﬂectively-Practiced
Disciple-Directed
Spirit-Driven
Life-ChangingTransformational Ministry
The Foundation of aVision for Ministry

Vital Sign 1:
Spirit-Driven (Spirit-Given)

Vital Sign 2:
Biblically-Based

Vital Sign 3:
Discipleship-Directed

Vital Sign 4:
Need-Responsive

Jot down some examples of the needs
of people in your congregation and
community that a need-responsive
ministry may address.

Vital Sign 5:
“Gathered-Scattered”
Attentive

Gathered (Spectrum of MINISTRY)
Scattered (Spectrum of MINISTRY)

Vital Sign 6:
Principle-Patterned

The Devotional Life

Hospitality

People Eyes

Vital Sign 7:
Reflectively-Practiced

Foundation for Ministry Elements of the 3-D Church
Spirit-Driven
Biblically-Based
Glorify God
Discipleship-Directed Grow Disciples
Need-Responsive Meet Human Need

Loving God
Body Life Be Sent

Doxological
Koinonial Missional

Know and experience the God who loves you
1. “Touching Jesus” – encouraging growth in personal faith
2. Shift to the high expectation that God has a vital future for you.
3. Begin a devotional life of prayer and Bible reading at home.
4. “Word-Share-Prayer” with others. “Be the people of God
before doing the work of the people of God.”

Equip and care for the people God gives you
1. “Offer Appreciation and expectation in every conversation!”
2. Show hospitality. Encourage the practice of the deipnon –
the lingering meal with “silver and gold.”
3. People eyes – seeing people through the eyes of Jesus –
becoming alert to the needs of the people God gives us.
4. Introduce “90 Days of Prayer” as a means of involving the
entire congregation in Word-Share-Prayer, new friendships and
groups.

Deipnon (The Lingering Meal)

Building

Bridging

Building and Bridging at the same time

Engage and serve the World
to which God sends you
1. Use the Halverson Benediction for yourself and with the
congregation and with its groups:
Wherever you go, God is sending you. Wherever you are
God has a purpose in you being there. Christ who indwells
you has something he wants to do through you where you
are! Believe it and go in his grace and power.
Richard C. Halverson
2. Introduce the One-One-One Prayer Covenant. Invite
members of groups (PW circles, Sunday School Classes,
small groups) to formally commit to pray for one person
outside the church for one minute a day for one month.
Pray the person comes to faith, to Christ’s church and for
the well-being of the person.

In the examples of Defining Vision
statements on pages 18-19 see how
many of the three dimensions of the
church you see in each one.

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