New
Directions Glossary
Administrative Associate--field-based member
of the Regional Leadership Team responsible for
the administrative support of the region to facilitate
field personnel as they develop and implement strategies
to initiate and nurture church-planting movements
among all people groups in the region.
Baptistic--a
community of baptized believers who adhere to Baptist
principles and core values yet do not use the name
"Baptist" or any other mainline denominational
identity in their self-disclosure.
What
is Baptistic? Two men are standing on the front
lawn of a church. One man is leaning on the church's
sign and the other is looking at it from the front.
The sign reads :
OAK
ROAD
Bible Believing, Hand Clapping, Foot Stomping,
Hemlines Below the Knee, Tie Wearing, Blood Washed,
Coffee-And-Donuts-During-Sunday-School Eating, Council
of Nicaea Appreciating,
Non-Denominational
CHURCH
The
man leaning on the sign says, "We dropped the
name Baptist, but didn't want to lose our baptistic
core values."
Church-Planting
Movement--a rapid and exponential multiplication
of indigenous churches within a population segment
(people group, city or country).
Great
Commission Christian--an evangelical Christian
actively engaged in or committed to the fulfillment
of the Great Commission.
Evangelical--Christians
of various denominations and ethnic backgrounds
who adhere to the basic tenets of born-again salvation
experience, the authority of God's Word and submission
to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
FAQ--Frequently
Asked Questions.
Field
Coordinators--also known as Cluster Coordinators
or Facilitators, field coordinators are missionaries
who act as player-coaches to assist their fellow
missionaries in the development and implementation
of strategy. They generally work under the supervision
of the Regional Leadership Team and bear responsibility
for a "field" within the region.
IMB
Guiding Principles (or, what hasn't changed)--
1.
Our basic commitment is to the Lordship of Jesus
Christ and obedience to God's infallible Word.
2.
Our basic belief is that Jesus Christ is God's only
provision for salvation and that people without
personal faith in Him are lost and will spend an
eternity in hell.
3.
Our basic means of understanding and fulfilling
God's mission is prayer.
4.
Our basic purpose is to provide all people an opportunity
to hear, understand and respond to the gospel in
their own cultural context.
5.
Our basic task is evangelism through proclamation,
discipling, equipping and ministry that results
in indigenous Baptist churches.
6.
Our basic strategy is to send and support gifted,
God-called missionaries who, with mutual respect,
accountability and cooperation, carry out the Great
Commission in an incarnational witness.
7.
Our basic role is to lead and facilitate the international
missionary involvement of Southern Baptists in partnership
with overseas Baptists and other Christians who
are fulfilling the Great Commission.
IMB
Mission Statement (more that hasn't changed)--The
mission of the International Mission Board, SBC,
is to lead Southern Baptists in international missions
efforts to evangelize the lost, disciple believers,
develop churches and minister to people in need.
Leading Southern Baptists is done by mobilizing
prayer support, appointing missionaries, enlisting
volunteers, channeling financial support and communicating
how God is working overseas.
IMB
Vision Statement (still more that hasn't changed)--We
will lead Southern Baptists to be on mission with
God to bring all the peoples of the world to saving
faith in Jesus Christ.
Mobilization--the
awakening and equipping of the whole body of Christ
to participate in the whole mission of God to reach
the whole world with the good news of Jesus Christ.
Paradigm--a
mental map of reality. The preconceptions that shape
our sense of what is real and what is possible.
Paradigm
Shift--a change in one's mental map of what
is real or possible.
People
Group--a homogeneous group of individuals, families
and clans sharing a common language and sense of
ethnic identity.
Platform--the
legal conditions under which one resides within
a country. The nature of one's permission to reside
in a foreign country as reflected on one's visa.
Population
Segment--either smaller subgroups of a people
group (e.g. rural, poorer class, deaf, etc.) or
a grouping of peoples along other strategically
significant lines (e.g. city, slum dwellers, etc.)
Rapid
Advance Mentoring Program--a field-based program
of accelerated mobilization, training, mentoring
and strategy implementation aimed at expediting
progress in difficult clusters of unreached people
groups.
Regional
Leader--a missionary selected by staff leadership
and the IMB trustee board to lead the missionaries
in one of the 14 geographical regions to develop
and implement church-planting strategies among all
of the people groups of that region.
Regional
Leadership Team--those individuals serving as
the region's Regional Leader, Administrative Associate,
Strategy Associate(s) and Richmond Associate who
bear the primary responsibility for leading the
missionaries serving in their region in developing,
supporting and implementing strategies for initiating
and nurturing church-planting movements among all
the people groups of their region.
Richmond
Associate--Richmond-based member of the Regional
Leadership Team who provides primary representation
and support for the region in relation to the Richmond
office and the stateside constituency.
Security--conditions
necessary to ensure safety in the midst of threats
to voice, freedom or life.
Segmentation--also
called segmentization. It refers to the subdividing
of a region, country or city into smaller, more
homogenous units such as ethnolinguistic people
groups which can then be addressed with strategies
for initiating and nurturing a church-planting movement.
Strategy
Associate--field-based member of the Regional
Leadership Team responsible for assisting the Regional
Leader in leading the missionaries of the region
as they develop and implement strategies to initiate
and nurture church-planting movements among all
people groups in the region.
Strategy
Coordinator--a missionary responsible for building
and leading teams in the design and implementation
of strategies that initiate and nurture a church-planting
movement among a specific ethnolinguistic people
group or population segment.
Strategic--activity
or resource that is integrated into a vision-driven
plan of ministry.
Teams--a
group of people working together effectively toward
a common objective.
Worldview--the
sum total of a people group's understanding of its
world including beliefs, values and shared perceptions
of reality.
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