Christian Communication
DTS values contextualized, effective communication of biblical and theological truth through various means for personal and corporate transformation.
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SPECIFIC
PERSONAL GOAL: By September 2024, I will sign up for an online “ Art of Preaching Class led by John Comer to improve my preaching skills.
MINISTRY GOAL: I will put together a 5 person multi-generational teaching team in my local church to share teaching responsibilities and to offer critique and feedback.
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MEASURABLE
PERSONAL GOAL: I will have my mentor keep me accountable at our monthly meetings.
MINISTRY GOAL: I will have the team submit feedback weekly.
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ACHIEVABLE:
PERSONAL GOAL: I will register for this class before December 2024 and begin classes in January of 2025.
MINISTRY GOAL: I will have a team put together by December 2024.
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RELEVANT:
PERSONAL GOAL: This goal is relevant in that it would help improve my preaching and communication skills.
MINISTRY GOAL: This goal is essential in that empowers others in their gifting to serve the local church.
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TIME BASED
PERSONAL GOAL: To watch 3 masterclasses (18 hours) of “ Art of Preaching Class”content by 03/15/2025.
MINISTRY GOAL: Goal will be to have this feedback over a 3 month period.
Christian Communication
SMART Goals
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Christian Communication Artifacts:
Personal Goal: Evidence of the Completed Art of Preaching Masterclass
Ministry Goal: Evidence of Feedback from Teaching Team
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Christian Communication Reflections:
Overall Reflection Statement:
For my competence in Christian Cultural Engagement, I have attached an Excel spreadsheet documenting my personal contributions towards missionaries who serve to share gospel locally and globally. This includes serving unsheltered populations with food and clothing in the city of Houston. It also includes serving the poor in downtown Houston and also a missionary family located in North Africa as they seek to take the gospel of Jesus to unreached people groups there. My personal support consists of monthly contributions monthly check-ins with the missions team at our church as we serve the city and quarterly check-ins with the missionaries in North Africa.
Learning Reflection Statement:
As I developed and demonstrated Christian engagement, I witnessed first hand the
challenges that many of our poor and marginalized populations faced in the city.
Beyond personal contributions, I would join our missions team first hand as they
Struggle with severe mental health challenges and its resulting disabilitation. Having said that, through the pooled resources we are able to serve them with warm food and gently used clothing monthly. Similarly, sharing the gospel in unreached people groups in North Africa is dangerous work. I just recently learned that some of the locals received jail sentences after getting caught publicly evangelizing. Not easy stuff but keeps us humbled in prayer for them and committed to supporting them financially.
Lifelong Learning Reflection Statement:
Per serving the mentally unstable and poor in the city, we wrestle with the tension of how limited we feel our impact is as the issues they deal with are chronic. Having said that we remain committed to the cause. I do intend to read the book “ When Helping Hurts” however to hopefully shed some light on how to best navigate this tension. In addition, happy to to report the missionary couple will be visiting us from North Africa in a couple of months and we will continue to pray for and seek to learn and ascertain from them what their needs are and what we can learn from once they return back to the United States for a brief vacation.
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