emRG Matrix 3.1 - A Research Framework for Impact

Matrix Background

• It's Background - Focused to serve the common needs of church planters (pdf)
• Practitioner's Feedback - Prioritized according to life feedback
• It's History and Openness - A design constantly improving
• It's Local Application - A pilot application on Barcelona
• Also see the EuropeanMissionsResearchGroup for background presentations and samples of research visuals

Matrix Outline and Description

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Church & Ministry ChMin (HarvestForce)

The ministering church is seen as God’s co-worker with in his Missio Dei in the world. In the harvest-analogy it is the HarvestForce working the HarvestField (in alignment with the Lord of the Harvest (Matthew 9:37-38).

Church demographics by area ChDemog (NUTS)

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Ministry relationships MinRel

ImpactRegion

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TheContext (HarvestField)

The context, on a macro level, is the culture or "soil"; into which GoChristians are planting seeds of the GospelMessage . On a micro level, the context is seen as the people who live in specific groupings with whom GoChristians are building bridges.

In order to discover effective ways to see seeds of faith grow, the sower needs to know what type of soil will be receiving the seeds, or message. Effective bridge-building communication of the Gospel message to those individuals belonging to a culture, geographical area or ethnic/subculture sub-grouping demands a knowledge of the general characteristics of the receivers of Gospel communication. This communication can be in the form of words, images, impressions of churches, impressions of Christians, and/or personal relationships.

Acknowledging that each group of people and each person will respond differently, based upon a unique set of experiences, histories and beliefs about life, motivates GoChristians to make an effort to analyze social patterns.

SocialDemographics (by NUTS)

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CulturalValues

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SocialIssues

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ReligiousPhilosophicalFoundations

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MissionalIssues (HarvestDynamics): Interaction of Church and Ministry ChMin with TheContext

ResponsivenessToGospel

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ExegesisOfCulture

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CollectiveVision

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MatrixDefinitions

Related topics: TWikiUsers, CountriesOfEurope, MatrixMap, MatrixDefinitions

Notes

1 : David Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain, 1989, pp.2-3

2 : which could be seen as a more detailed elaboration of the four characteristics highlighted by Bebbington

3 : Barna, http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=Topic&TopicID=17

4 : Evangelical Alliance

5 : World Council of Churches

6 : Church (with a small c). A local fellowship of Christians.

7 : Should be specified

8 : Churches that do not associate with any organized group

9 : Churches that focus specifically on an action, program or characteristic

10 : Post-Evangelical, post-modern, neo-Apostolic, Emergent, etc.

11 : From Church Planting Movements, Chapter 2.

12 : Their web site is http://www.ncd- international.org

13 : Please see the article, “The Problem with Counting Christians” http://emrg.friderich.net/ESEArticle2.pdf