The recovery of the central role and significance of Jesus for discipleship, spirituality, theology, community, and mission.

Jesus is Lord – * A radical and unwavering commitment to the Way (ethos) of the Founder Jesus at the very center of it all;

Rather than maintaining a generic “Jesus is Lord” confessional intent or promotion of badge or brand, leaders cultivate a clear and compelling vocabulary and focus that declares their identity and intent as the radical minimum standard of following Jesus together.

The practice of becoming more like Jesus and enabling others to do so; seeking to do the same things that Jesus did for the same reasons that he did them.

Discipleship and Disciple Making  – * A clearly articulated vision for discipleship as well as a clear process to ensure that disciple-making happens throughout the organization;

Rather than aiming for attendance at programmatic offerings and the passing-on of information in classes, leaders create practices, processes, language and models for “becoming like Jesus” as the irreplaceable core task of the community in all components of ministry design.

APEST as the DNA and latent potential within God’s people, realized and expressed to bring fullness, unity, and maturity to the body of Christ.

APEST – * A missional ministry (and by extension, leadership) equal to the task of initiating, developing, and maintaining movement;

Rather than recruiting volunteers to serve the organisational programming and only a few expressing leadership across the community, leaders help identity and deploy the APEST capability of every believer, leader, team and ministry to develop unity, release a diversity of gifting and together pursue maturity.

The church organizing itself as a living organism, viewed as a movement rather than an institution.

Organic Systems – * A system designed around internalized movementDNA, committed to empowering every agent in the system by pushing power and function to the outermost limits, along with a resolute pre-commitment to system-wide reproducibility and scalability;

Rather than organising around the addition of members, groups, services and campuses with highly centralised control, leaders structure for empowerment at the grassroots level, orientated towards the edge, and through high accountability and low control allow for rapid multiplication at every level.

The dynamics of Christian community inspired to shake off their collective securities and form themselves around a common mission that calls them to an adventurous journey to unknown places.

 Liminality and Communitas –* An inbuilt culturally embedded willingness to regularly dare and to take risks in the cause of the movement. 

Rather than allowing an inward focus to reinforce a culture of safety and security, church leaders intentionally design risk-taking practices, environment and process to cultivate cause-based community as the normative expression of community.