The Evangel Network

C HAPTER 5: B ATTLE P LAN • 33

C. Leaders must be able to defend the Apostolic Tradition.

1. TUMI facilitates leadership development through its Capstone and other curricula.

IV. T ransition: Common Commitments (Theological Confession, Strategic Commitments, Standard Practices) That Train Leaders to Plant Churches and Facilitate Church Planting Movements A. These will be replicated from one church to another, e.g. when an emerging leader learns how to serve communion at the mother church, he knows how to lead communion at the daughter church plant. B. The structures (theological understanding and practical application of the standard practices ) must be designed to make it easy to train leaders and export to new churches. Structures facilitate and enable innovation.

C. Church planters are freed from re-inventing the structures locally by plugging into existing structures.

D. Urban Church Association

1. Evangel Network churches located in proximity to each other gather together for fellowship, resourcing, and missions (UCA Manual).