Ephesians 4:7-16
| Apostolic | Prophetic | Evangelistic | Shepherding | Teaching | |
| Theological roots in God | Father, creator, sender (missio Dei), Sovereign, Designer, Judge, Source | Holy, faithful, incarnate, transcendent, covenantal, just and true, omnipotent | Savior, redeemer, gracious giver, lover, merciful | Community in the Trinity, comforter, immanent, intimate, knower (yada), divine parent, compassionate | Omniscient, prescient, truth, wisdom, beauty, Logos (reason) |
| Core vocation | • Custodian of the DNA • Pioneer • Entrepreneur • Architect | • Guardian of the covenant • Questioner of the status quo | • Connector to the cause • Recruiter • Entrepreneur | • Nurturer • Humanizer • Sustainer • Social integrator | • Mediator of wisdom and understanding • Trainer-educator • Theological formation |
| Impulse | Missional | Incarnational | Attractional | Communal | Instructional |
| Effect | Propagate | Incarnate | Aggregate | Integrate | Explicate |
| Focus | A viable future and expansion of the Christian movement | God orientation: Keeping the movement aligned with God | That people come to know Jesus and join the movement | The community living healthily in the love of the triune God | Awareness and integration of truth, especially revealed truth |
| Spirituality-character complex | Adventurous and futuristic Has an architectural/systemic sensibility, with an emphasis on risk | Transcendent and existential Has a strong intuition of what is right and wrong, emphasizing integrity, obedience, and mystery | Relational and communal Emphasis on novelty, sociality, playfulness, and celebration | Nurturing and communal, with an emphasis on healing, wholeness, and community | Intellectual and philosophical, with an emphasis on curiosity, learning, knowledge, and the intellect |
| Leadership Style | Decisive Design focused Strategic | Demonstrative Motivational | Persuasive Motivational | Inclusive Collaborative | Prescriptive Analytical |
| Emphasis in disciple-making | scalable and reproducible, discipling someone as they disciple someone else, discipleship systems | Hearing the revelatory word (rhema) of God, prayer, and obedience to the voice of God | Doing what Jesus did, being good news, and exemplifying Christlikeness to others | Inner healing, healthy community life, and relational reconciliation | Assimilating the logos word of God and through the reading/understanding of scripture |
| Overriding concerns | Will this help us increase our capacity for mission? | Will this help us embody God’s concerns? | Will this help us bring people to a point of conversion? | How will this affect the organization and people in the community? | How will this line up with theology and scripture? |
| Metrics for success | Healthy and systematic extension of Christianity within and beyond cultural boundaries Kingdom multiplication | Faithfulness to God’s values through visible and tangible actions and consciousness of God’s character and presence | Growth through individual and group conversion and in increasing the number of adherents in the movement | People’s experience of a sense of belonging, intimacy, and personal transformation | Adequate engagement with, comprehension of, and consistency with truth in all its forms |
| How it contributes to the health of the movement | Ensuring consistency with core ideas Laying new foundations and designing systems around mobilization and extension | Anchoring the movement in God’s values and providing critical feedback for constant realignment | Explicitly valuing the Gospel as our core story Adding new people Sharing the message in the local vernacular | Cultivating and integrating people into a socially cohesive community that fosters relational health and harmony | Systematizing and articulating the multi-dimensional aspects of truth Optimizing operational efficiency Building systems of discipleship |
| Blind spots and shadows | Dominance: task-focused, demanding, and insensitive to others. Immaturity A’s can succumb to being controlling and this can lead to burnout–personal and corporate. | Disrespectful: Passionate can become ideological and demanding. Laser-set on truth can become short-sighted, and simplistic. A call to conviction can become critical and condemning | Driven: Anything to make the deal, not demanding enough, mistakes “being involved” for equipping or discipleship | Drowning: Obsessive need for harmony, aversion to risk or conflict, and may take on too many people’s problems | Dogmatism: Demand for ideology conformity and lack of urgency, can be overly critical over certain areas and may choose being ‘right’ over relationships |
| Historical Exemplars | Jesus, Peter, Paul, St. Patrick, Joan of Arc, John Wesley, Aimee Semple McPherson, | Jesus, Jeremiah, St. Benedict, Martin Luther, St Theresa of Avila, Ida B. Robinson, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr. | Jesus, Phillip, George Whitfield, Kathryn Kuhlman, Billy Graham, Rick Warren, Carletha CeCe Cole | Jesus, St. Francis, Jean Vanier, Mother Theresa, Eugene Peterson | Jesus, Apollos, Augustine, Aquinas, John Calvin, Henry Nouwen, Beth Moore, Priscilla Shirer |
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