SMC 2a-3: Researching Your Missional Context
Understanding Attributes and Lifestyles
This workshop is an initial introduction to understanding some necessary spiritual and religious attributes of your chosen people group. Discussion will include religious attitudes concerning heritage, memory, worldview perspectives, and involvement levels. Additional discussion will include how people are shaped by their environment and their psychological attributes, motivation, values, and direction. Lifestyle characteristics and a broad overview of the activities, interests, and opinions found within cultural groups will be covered. A insightful and engaging workshop that culminates in discussion of gospel communication.
Workshop Objectives
What you will learn in this workshop
1. How to research spiritual and religious attributes.
2. Learn about ten religious attitudes, religious beliefs, and types of world perspectives.
3. How motivation, values, direction, lifestyle, and social adaption may affect ministry and an individuals perception of Christianity.
4. That researching ones harvest field will be invaluable to understanding cultural settings for contextual ministry.
Workshop Outline
1. Spirituality Attributes
2. Religious Attributes
3. Psychological Attributes
4. Identifying Lifestyle Characteristics
5. Cultural Dimensions, Descriptions, Communication
6. Framework for Research
7. Summary Contextual Message, Congregation, Leadership