Training Curriculum

DOXA Culture, Partnership, and Missiological Expectations

Working Together With God (2 Corinthians 6:1)

Our Partnership teams minister in diverse contexts across the globe. The need for flexible leaders who are committed to a common culture is vital to establish healthy ministries. We celebrate our diversity while we collectively uphold our common values.

Being disciples and making disciples of Jesus (Matthew 28:19) — To proclaim truth, we must first experience it both personally and as a community of believers (1 John 1:1-4). To this end, we affirm our strong commitment to daily abiding in the presence of Jesus (John 15), lovingly holding each other accountable (Acts 15, 17, James 5:16), and boldly living the life of true disciples (who make disciples) of Jesus (Romans 1:16). Who we are will drive what we do. Integrity, humility, and authenticity are just as important as competence.

RESOURCES
The Spiritual Formation of Leaders by Chuck Miller
Practicing the Way by John Mark Comer
Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard
After You Believe by Tom Wright
Discipleship by Design by Harvey Hermann
Abide in Christ by Andrew Murray
Principles of Spiritual Growth by Miles Stanford
Invitation to a Journey by Robert Mulholland
Living incarnational lives — Sharing truth begins by sharing life (1 Corinthians 3:9, 1 Thessalonians 2:7-8) with those in our receiving local community. We affirm the call to be life-long learners of language and culture (Hebrews 2:18, 4:15) so that our witness is culturally understandable (Acts 15) while remaining biblically sound. This requires laborers who embrace culture while faithfully representing God’s kingdom in a broken world (1 Corinthians 9:22).

RESOURCES
Paradigms in Conflict by David Hesselgrave
Transforming Culture by Sherwood Lingenfelter
Contextualization: Meaning, Methods, and Models by David Hesselgrave
The Message, The Messenger, and The Community by Roland Muller
Contextualization in the New Testament by Dan Flemming
From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya by Ruth Tucker
Planting vibrant indigenous churches — The mission mandate is apostolic (Romans 15:20-21), calling us to go to those areas that are untouched by God’s message of redemption. We will work (1 Corinthians 4:1-2) to plant self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating churches (2 Timothy 2:2) with Spirit-led, godly leaders. We prioritize church planting “in the regions beyond” – unengaged peoples, frontier peoples, under-engaged peoples, and the unreached (Matthew 28:18-19, Revelation 7:9).

RESOURCES
The Indigenous Church by Melvin Hodges
People Vision by Len Bartlotti (Editor)
Any 3 by Mike Shipman
T4T by Steve Smith and Ying Kai
The 3D Gospel by Jayson Georges
Movements that Change the World by Steve Addison
Perspectives on the World Christian Movement by Ralph Winter
The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church by Roland Allen
Empowered by the Spirit — As representatives of the kingdom (Ephesians 5:18), our lives must reflect the transformation that only comes through the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8). We affirm that our fruit belongs to God, that our work is empowered by His presence (Ephesians 6:18), and that our effectiveness is based solely on a reliance we maintain daily on the Holy Spirit. We believe in Pentecostal holism (Acts 6:4) that ministers to mind, body, and spirit through word, sign, and deed. The insertion point can vary (we can start with ministry to mind OR body OR spirit), but we have not shared the Gospel until we have proclaimed from the Bible what God has done in Christ (2 Timothy 4:2).

RESOURCES
The Gospel Precisely by Matthew Bates
The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke by Roger Stronstad
Between History and Spirit: The Apostolic Witness of the Book of Acts (Chapters 17-18) by Craig Keener
Missions in the Age of the Spirit by John York
People of the Spirit by Gary McGee
This Gospel Shall Be Preached by Gary McGee
Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission by David J. Bosch
Embracing obedient lifestyles — The work of gospel proclaimers requires us to confront forces of darkness (Ephesians 6:10-17) and to withstand the insults of man. Faithfully fulfilling our mandate requires character that comes through humble submission (Luke 22:42, Matthew 26:39) to our loving God in all circumstances (John 12:24, Galatians 2:20). We affirm that to welcome sacrificial living for Jesus (Hebrews 5:8), even suffering (1 Corinthians 15:31), is a biblical value that grateful disciples offer to God (Matthew 5:11).

RESOURCES
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
Deliverance by John Tompson
Liberty to the Captives by Mark Durie
The Seeking Heart by Fenelon
Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray
Pioneering Movements by Steve Addison
The Insanity of God by Nik Ripken
Teamwork as testimony — Jesus sent the disciples out two by two (Luke 9:1-2, 10:1). We affirm the powerful witness of Spirit-led teams. When we partner together (Acts 13:1-3, Romans 16:1-16) from different nations to present the gospel to the unreached, we are a picture of the gospel of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:17-19) that brings all men together.

RESOURCES
Life Together by Diedrick Boenhoeffer
Vision of the Possible by Daniel Sinclair
Crucial Conversations by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler
Ministering Cross Culturally by Sherwood Lingenfelter
5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
Partnership as relationship — When we work where there are existing National Churches connected to the World Assemblies of God Fellowship (WAGF), we will prioritize working with them (John 17) as we reach the unreached and engage the unengaged together (John 12:32). We will collaborate with partner national churches walking in unity, humility, and respect towards the unreached and unengaged (Romans 15:1-12). Wherever possible, we will invite all movements of people groups that come to Jesus to join the existing national churches and the wider World Assemblies of God family (Philippians 1:5). When working in countries that do not have existing Assemblies of God national churches, we will invite church movements that are pioneered to join our wider global WAGF family while maintaining a broad and inclusive Kingdom of God perspective (2 Corinthians 8:18-19). When working in countries where the National Church does not yet engage the unreached and/or unengaged, we will prayerfully and humbly ask if we can work with them towards reaching the unreached and engaging the unengaged (Romans 15:14-25). We must always obey Jesus and make disciples of all the nations (Acts 13:46-48).

RESOURCES
Partnership by Morris Williams
Apostolic Function by Alan Johnson.
The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative by Christopher J. H. Wright
Resources in the Encountering Mission Series by Craig Ott and Paul Hiebert