What I Would do Differently
APPENDIX 1 CLARITY SURVEY
What Does “Missional” Mean?
This survey uses words like “missional Christian,” “missional living,” “mission minded,”
“mission focused,” and “kingdom focused.” These terms are simply describing a way of thinking and living we might normally associate with those of a missionary. Missionaries are ambassadors for Christ wherever they find themselves. In America today,
missionaries are needed every day at home, as well as in foreign countries. Missionaries are people that love God and the people they encounter in their communities. Their ultimate goal is to share the love of Jesus with the world outside the walls of the church.
Clarity, movement, alignment, and focus are processes that have been shown to be present in the lives of the most effective churches and individual Christian’s lives. These four processes will serve as the framework for our actions in this project.
Clarity involves developing a plan for the path we need to travel to become more
missional Christians. This plan is a blueprint for how we intend to accomplish this goal.
Clarity means we state clearly where we want to go, and begin to plan how to get there.
Please answer each statement using the scale below, and then briefly comment to clarify your answer.
Strongly Disagree Disagree Agree Agree Strongly Disagree Somewhat Somewhat Agree SD D DS AS A SA
Pre-Project Statements
1. My life is intentionally mission-focused. _____
2. I know specifically where to begin to live a more effective missional live. _____
3. I have a written personal mission statement that guides my daily activities. _____
4. I currently have a specific plan that I can articulate to live a missional live. _____
If we desire greater clarity in living a missional life, God may use our participation in this project to bring clarity, a mission, and a plan to be a more faithful ambassador for Him!
Post-Project Statements
1. During the period of my involvement in Operation Edgar, my life has been intentionally mission-focused. _____
2. I know specifically where to begin to live a more effective missional live. _____
3. I have a written personal mission statement that guides my daily activities. _____
4. I currently have a specific plan that I can articulate to live a missional live. _____
Our prayer is that as a church we desire greater clarity in living a missional life. We pray that God has used our participation in this project to equip us to bring clarity, a mission, and a plan to be a more faithful ambassador for Him!
APPENDIX 2
SURVEY OF AGREEMENT WITH STATEMENTS FROM THE BAPTIST FAITH AND MESSAGE
The following survey is designed to measure your level of agreement on several topics as put forward in the Baptist Faith and Message (BFM). The BFM is a group of principles and positions that attempts to summarize what the members of the Southern Baptist Convention believe.1
Baptists historically deny the right of any group or authority to impose a confession of faith upon a church or group of churches. The committee that writes the BFM are charged with identifying and affirming certain doctrines that Southern Baptists believe.
The BFM is an attempt to set forth certain teachings held in common by Southern Baptists.
This survey is optional and any answers will be kept in confidence of the leader of the project. Participants may also elect to remain anonymous and submit their survey without identifying themselves.
Please answer after each topic using the scale below to signify your personal level of agreement with the overall statements. Please include any clarifying comments if you like.
Strongly Disagree Disagree Agree Agree Strongly Disagree Somewhat Somewhat Agree SD D DS AS A SA
I. The Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. _____
1Southern Baptist Convention, “The Baptist Faith and Message,” accessed
II. God
There is one and only one living and true God...God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures. ______
III. Man
Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image...In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, they become transgressors and are under condemnation. _____
IV. Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer...There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord. _____
IX. The Kingdom
The Kingdom of God includes both His general sovereignty over the universe and His particular kingship over men who willfully acknowledge Him as King. Particularly the Kingdom is the realm of salvation into which men enter by trustful, childlike commitment to Jesus Christ. Christians ought to pray and to labor that the Kingdom may come and God's will be done on earth. _____
X. Last Things
God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end.
According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness.
The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord. _____
XI. Evangelism and Missions
It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and of every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nations. The new birth of man's spirit by God's Holy Spirit means the birth of love for others. Missionary effort on the part of all rests thus upon a spiritual necessity of the regenerate life, and is expressly and repeatedly commanded in the teachings of Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ has commanded the preaching of the gospel to all nations. It is the duty of every child of God to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by verbal witness undergirded by a Christian lifestyle, and by other methods in harmony with the gospel of Christ. _____
XV. The Christian and the Social Order
All Christians are under obligation to seek to make the will of Christ supreme in our own lives and in human society. Means and methods used for the improvement of society and the establishment of righteousness among men can be truly and permanently helpful only when they are rooted in the regeneration of the individual by the saving grace of God in Jesus Christ...Every Christian should seek to bring industry,
government, and society as a whole under the sway of the principles of righteousness, truth, and brotherly love. _____
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