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Purpose

Jan 29

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Our purpose is to help people in Austin, TX grow closer to the Lord God Jesus Christ in His Second Coming by means of local, relevant, healthy church communities.

[This is from the Launch Plan for New Way Church. Go to yesterday’s post to read about “Core Values“. Next week: “Mission“, “Our Mantra”, “Aspirational Goal”, “Vision”, and “Rationale”. If you are finding this interesting, please do post a comment. And if you know of someone else who would find this useful to talk about, send them a link to this site.]


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Core Values

Jan 28

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The following twelve values are the foundation of this plan and will remain as constant principles guiding our goals and activities from the proposed congregation’s inception onward. The first five define our faith and purpose, and the remaining seven represent the qualities that define a healthy spiritual community in the human form.

  1. The Lord Jesus Christ is the one and only God, and the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Heavenly Doctrines are His Word, and the foundation of all we do.
  2. We teach truths, and use those truths to help people to live good and useful lives.
  3. We love and serve one another, so that together we may love and serve the rest of the Lord’s children.
  4. We value marriage between a man and a woman and honor the unique, complimentary nature of each gender.
  5. We launch new, healthy congregations that share these values, and we inspire, instruct, support and advise others who are also called to do so.
  6. Survival – a healthy congregation has the ability to continue on despite outside events, despite the change of pastor, and despite the change of culture within the group.
  7. Growth – a healthy congregation has the intent to grow, in depth of involvement and in numbers involved.
  8. Reproduction (Fruitfulness) – a healthy congregation will eventually spawn, sponsor, and/or support additional fledgling congregations and missions, and will become a net producer of future ministers and pastors.
  9. Sovereignty (Freedom) – a healthy congregation is not financially beholden to other organizations, denominations, corporations or individual benefactors, although it may associate freely with them.
  10. Harmony – a healthy congregation has a focused purpose and unified mission around which there is a small harmony of goals that its membership organizes itself around and clearly agrees to.
  11. Service (Use) – a healthy congregation is outward focused and service-oriented, leading to a compassionate dedication to serving not just one another, but those outside the organization.
  12. Integrity – a healthy congregation keeps a fearless, unapologetic adherence to the principle teachings of New Christianity regarding the Lord, the Word, and the life of charity.

[This is excerpted from the Launch Plan for New Way Church in Austin, TX. Yesterday we posted “The Point“. Tomorrow: “Purpose“.]

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The Point

Jan 27

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Our immediate strategic aim is to successfully launch a New Church congregation with the purpose, mission and values described in this plan, and have it be financially self-supporting within four years so that it can then begin planting its own daughter congregations.

[Excerpted from the Launch Strategy for New Way Church. Yesterday we posted the introduction. Tomorrow: “Core Values“.]


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New Way Church: Launch Strategy for Austin, TX

Jan 26

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This is the plan for the launching of a new New Church church (sic) in Austin, Texas, named “New Way Church”. This is will contribute to the General Church Strategic Plan, which calls for (among other things) the planting of new church societies on an ongoing basis. Although this plan, if successful, will result in the creation of multiple congregations, it is not intended as a complete solution to the General Church plan. Rather, it is just one suggested model that ought to be tried at least once, and then modified and reused, in other locations, for future General Church sponsored church starts.

[As announced yesterday, I am serializing my launch plan for planting a church in Austin. Before getting into the meat of things (tomorrow), we’re starting (above) with the 30 second intro to give you some context. Remember to share this with interested New Church folks who want to learn more about church planting. Tomorrow afternoon: “The Point“.]


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New Way Church, Austin, TX: Launch Strategy

Jan 25

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Hey there! I have decided to start to share parts of my plan for launching a new church in Austin here on MacFrazier.com. I’ll be releasing pieces of the plan serially, all under the Strategy subcategory of the Church Planting category. I’ll probably publish about one excerpt a day, at least on weekdays, and usually some time after lunchtime here on the east coast.

So over the next few weeks, here is a list of topics I’ll be posting on:

As I post on these topics, I’ll link them back to this outline to help you navigate among the sections.

Why am I doing this? To satisfy curiosity. To solicit support. To stimulate thinking. To encourage others to come up with their own, better plans, for their own, better projects. And especially to start a conversation. I am happy to answer questions as they come up. So if you know someone who is interested in the topic of church planting in the New Christian (Swedenborgian) context, invite them in. I’d love to hear from you all.

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