DISCOVER God’s work in each community

Because God is already working in each community, we will

• In each local community we are discovering the
  • location of each congregation in a community, and the significant ministries they offer
  • location of each non-profit in a community, and the significant ministries they offer
  • location of each Christian school (preschool through university), and the significant ministries they offer

What can I  do?

• Help us research
  • We need two types of people to help:
    • Outgoing people: If you’ve never met a stranger, and excites you to go out and meet pastors, non-profit leaders, and others in the community, we need you to help us discover what God is doing (knowing that every conversation you have will be used to create an app that will catalyze missional unity)! To learn more: visit our ReSearch page.
    • Detailed people: If you love the idea of accurately keeping track of what those outgoing people discover, and want to help us populate a database (that will later be turned into an app that will catalyze missional unity), we need you! To learn more: visit our ReSearch page.

STUDY missional unity

Because missional unity is a strategic way to answer Jesus prayer for unity,

• We hope to create a Center for Missional Unity at Palm Beach Atlantic University that will advance academic understanding of Missional Unity and serve as a hub for the global Missional Unity movement
  • Connect faculty and students from the Master of Science in Community Development, Master of Divinity, Ph.D. in Practical Theology, and related degree programs at Palm Beach Atlantic University
    • Develop a Research Center that will develop a robust theology of Missional Unity
      • Jesus prayed for his disciples to be unified (John 17:20-23).
      • Because of Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection, every person following Jesus is connected to every other person following Jesus as a brother or sister through their shared relationship with Him. If that’s true, each person should accept all of the brothers and sisters God has adopted into His family (we call that “ontological unity”).
      • Christians should accept all of the brothers and sisters God has adopted into His family.
      • Until all Christians everywhere are living and operating as one body (ecclesiological unity), Christians can take a significant step toward answering Jesus’ prayer through missional unity.
      • The purpose of unity, according to Jesus, is that the world would know that God sent Jesus (John 17:23).
    • Begin to identify systemic needs and holistic solutions.
      • Identify obstacles to missional unity – what has prevented and continues to prevent Christians, leaders, churches, and non-profits from answering Jesus’ prayer for unity.
      • Exegete John 17:20-23 and the theological imperative for Jesus’ followers created by His prayer
      • Further develop the strategic vision of Community Life (a missional network of churches, non-profits, and people) as a path toward missional unity in local communities.

What can I do?  

• If you’re intrigued by what you are learning about missional unity, but not convinced yet, visit our Questions About Unity? page to keep the conversation going.
• If you are wholeheartedly convinced that God only has one family, sign the Declaration of Unity.
• If you want to study missional unity, consider enrolling in a degree program at Palm Beach Atlantic University or contacting our Lead Facilitator, Rev. Dr. Shawn Allen, an Adjunct Professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University.

PRAY strategically 

Because Jesus prayed for unity, we will

• Develop a prayer team comprised of people throughout each local community to pray for each strategic step of this strategy (Study, Discover, etc.).
  • Partner with prayer ministries to pray missionally
  • Lead prayer team members to pray specifically for the process of discerning the systemic and personal needs of our region.
  • Lead prayer team members to pray specifically for the solutions as they are implemented.
    • Funnel specific requests from the field to the prayer team members in real time.
    • Share answered prayers with the prayer team members in real time.
  • Host Missional Prayer Events, calling people to pray for specific needs and solutions.
• Develop an electronic prayer map
  • Receive missional prayer requests
  • Communicate missional prayer requests
  • Inspire people to pray for missional prayer requests
  • Recruit a person on every street in the community to pray for the people on their street
  • Gather people who are praying to share stories and encourage people to continue to pray

What can I do?  

• Join our prayer team.
  • WARNING: Praying for missional unity is going to be exciting!
  • We’re going to share prayer requests with you that will help God’s will be done here one earth as it is in heaven . . . in real time.
  • We’re going to share answered prayer requests with you in real time.
  • Click Pray to join our prayer team.

What’s the next step? ⇒  CONNECT with God’s people