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Most students will use material drawn from their work in Units 1, 2, and 3. A critical concept is shaped by Unit 1, Issue 3, Project 1. The range of leader types described in the New Testament sometimes creates confusion, however, the leaders fall into two basic groups. One group had local responsibility for the shepherding of a church while seeking to contribute to global expansion. The other group was responsible for driving the multiplication of churches globally while contributing to the strength of churches locally. Ralph Winter’s article, “The Two Structures of Redemptive Mission” uses the terms modality (local) and sodality (global) to describe these respective spheres of ministry. Building on this fundamental New Testament picture, you will develop material throughout Unit 2 which that captures the role and responsibility of sodality leaders (we use the term Ministers of the Gospel to describe them). This culminates in a mini-theology of Pauline teams as your work for Unit 2, Issue 4, Project 1. Throughout Unit 3, you will develop material that captures the roles and responsibility of modality leaders, elders and deacons. In Unit 3, Issue 4, Project 1 you add your completed work on elders and deacons to the previous mini-theology on Pauline Teams, making sure to discuss how the two leadership spheres relate to each other. Some version of this cumulative project is often used to address the first competency.

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It is key to recognize that this competency has two parts. Both parts are often addressed through a combination of you work for Unit 4, Issue 1, Project 1 and Unit 4, Issue 2, Project 1. The first project has you look at the Antioch tradition. Make sure you describe not only the New Testament picture of the first century but also the elements of the Antioch tradition that developed over the next four centuries. The second project asks you to think about how the elements of the early church tradition that could be built into a contemporary model. “Rediscovering the Antioch Tradition” in the Project Guides provides an example that could be expanded upon.

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Here students will typically use a version of their work for Unit 5, Issue 3, Project 1. Several Project Guide examples are listed in conjunction with this project. Each of these provide an example of one component of a multi-level leadership training strategy. In designing your strategy, it is important to think back over the principles you have been discussing throughout the entire course. In this way you will develop a plan for training the full range of leaders needed to sustain a church-multiplication movement.