The document discusses forming missional communities and how change happens gradually through different stages of adoption. It provides rules for missional life based on Luke 10, including catechesis, going local, packing light, eating what is offered, and being open to the unpredictable work of God. Leadership is called to cultivate environments that release the missional imagination of a local church in relationship to its context. Change rarely happens directly but through gradual adoption as people become aware of, interested in, decide to try, and eventually adopt new approaches or ideas.

1. How do we form
Luke 10
communities?

2. What is God up to in
the ‘neighborhood’?

3. How do we join with
what the Spirit is
doing?

4. Spirit of God is
among the people of
God

5. Wisdom to address
challenges of mission
in discontinuous
environments
among the people.

6. Needs to be called forth
in each local church in
relationship to its
contexts.

7. Leadership...
Cultivates
environments that
release missional
imagination of God’s
people in a particular
locale.

8. Change rarely happens in
a straight line,
directly from Point A to
Point B
In fact, it looks more like the path of a sailboat,
riding the wind to get to its destination.

9. This is especially true as a
whole culture changes.

10. Everett Rogers declares that there
are even five different stages that
members of a culture go through
when they have met a change…
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11. Rules for missional life
…Luke 10: 1-12
• Catechesis - people of the way
• Go local
• Bags/sandals at home
• Don’t move from house to house
• Eat what is set before you
• Poets among the ordinary
• Unpredictable God (not manageability)
• Experiments not SP
• Viruses not BEHAGS