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A Paper
Presented to
Dr. Douglas White
Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary
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In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for DSMN 500: Discipleship Ministries
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by
Timothy Taylor
#177780
October 15, 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION……………………….………………………………………………2
VISION…………………………………………………………………..………………3
VALUES…………………………………………………..…………………………….4
VIEWS………………………………………………….…………………….…….……6
VEHICLES………………………………………………………………………………6
VERIFIERS…………………………………………………………………………….14
CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………………17
BIBLIOGRAHY…………………………………………………………………..……20
Introduction
As I prepare the Disciple Making Plan for Hebron Baptist Church I have had time to reflect on the desires of the congregation and listen to the voice of God as He has spoke to my spirit. My current status has been encouraging, as we have shifted from being a reactive ministry to a proactive ministry. At this time I am presently in my 10th year as pastor of a church in an urban area of Brooklyn, N.Y, My first 8 years very little in the way of discipleship was accomplished as our building was old and the congregation was already small and began diminishing though relocation and death. Our efforts at discipleship were further hampered after in my 3rd year we experienced a major collapse in part of our building. Over the next 5 years the concentration of the church was on our building. Every bit of our energy, effort and finances went into keeping the building standing. In August of 2013 God allowed me to go to the congregation to cast the vision of relocation to another location that would be conducive for ministry. On 6-24-14 we sold our old building and purchased our new building twice the size of what we had and for the first time in the churches 32-year history became debt free.
