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B) Study Focus
What issues in your ministries led to your critical question?
Our church is located in a town ? Lebanon, Pennsylvania -- that is filled
with social problems. Drug, alcohol and sexual addiction are rampant, as
is mental illness. Cornerstone is a church that is full of young believers,
many of whom come with the baggage of these types of problems, and an
understanding of purpose is essential in leading them to be the people
God wants made them to be. The mission of the New Testament is not
having much impact on these tough problems in our town right now, so I
am also interested in learning how to lead our local church in missionally
impacting our town with the message of Christ.


E) Evaluation
How will you individually measure the outcomes named in your learning
objectives?
1. A working definition of missional leadership will be passed on the other
leaders in my church for evaluation and critique.
2. The research and Bible study that we accomplish corporately will inform
my leadership team meetings and times of teaching in such a way that
people begin to think missionally.
3. The Immersion Retreat will provide a paradigmatic scope of ministry
that will enable me as a pastor to view my church more objectively in
regard to missional ministry.


E) Evaluation
How will you corporately measure the outcomes named in your learning
objectives?
By meeting together regularly and engaging in meaningful discussion
about in regard to our reading list and Bible study, we hope to discover
together the truth of what it means to be missional leaders. We will know
that we are accomplishing this as we answer these questions:
Are we able to come to a solid working definition of what it means
to be missional? If not, why not?
Is missional leadership a good thing?
In what ways are our churches missional now?
In what ways are our churches not being missional?
Are we identifying and strategizing ways to break through barriers
to missional ministry?
Are our strategies working? If not, why not?
In what ways does our Immersion Retreat inform our strategies of
becoming missional leaders?

These are a few questions that could be useful from an evaluative
standpoint. To be sure, we want to understand this concept of ?missional?,
we want to learn what missional churches and leaders are doing in order
to be missional, and we want to understand what missional leadership will
be in the context of our individual ministries.