The Evangel Dean Basic Training Resource Handbook

18 • T HE E VANGEL D EAN B ASIC T RAINING R ESOURCE H ANDBOOK

3. We are committed to recruit, empower, and release urban leaders who will plant churches and launch indigenous church planting movements. 4. Global Ends Statement : The Gospel of the Kingdom proclaimed by the empowered urban poor to every people group through indigenous churches and movements.

5. Our Tag Line : Transforming Communities Together

6. Davis’s reflections on the indigeneity of World Impact’s language (three implications)

a. To be truly missional is to discern our part in what God wants to do through us and others.

b. God can do in and through any people whatever he desires; he can be as strong in them as he has been in us.

c. All peoples deserve the right to engage in efforts to advance the Kingdom, and to fail as many times as we have!

B. The Institute’s Purpose

1. To equip leaders

2. For the urban church

3. Especially among the poor

4. In order to advance the Kingdom of God

C. The Institute’s Goal

1. The Goal is Wisdom

2. The Six Overall Objectives

II. Leadership as Representation and Our Foundational Church Planting Convictions

A. The big idea in Christian leadership is representing Christ.