Dave Weiss' ideas for Learning Activities

D. Learning Activities
1. In Depth study of the first missional church, the Acts church. This church in a very short period of time went from micro church to megachurch, so it shows a wide variety of things, from the persecution from being a small counterculture movement to the struggles that go with inexperienced leadership and immense and rapid growth. We may draw some really interesting parallels.

2. Study of Erwin McManus’ An Unstoppable Force (especially if we go there)

3. Study of Rick Bundschuh’s Don’t Rock the Boat, Capsize It (especially if we go there)

4. Creating a web resource that is informative for others who wish to do missional ministry. We could do this by researching other churches that are really missional, and compiling their links on a web page with articles from our study and other publications. This would serve two purposes, it would quantify our web research into something tangible and it would create a resource we could maintain through ongoing study and research. I would be willing to build and maintain the site if we went this route.

5. Field testing. Create some events for outreaches that are missional. I don’t know what this would look like exactly, but I would be willing to allow New Creation to serve as our own little petrie dish. For an even more scholarly thing, we could do similar events at each of our churches and compare the results of how it works in a micro church, a medium church and a large church. This could really help us to see how “missional” works in a variety of settings and prepare us for our presentation somewhere down the road.