Quest for the Missing Piece of Information: Protestant Church Renewal

Background Context

After encountering an undefined "missing piece" in the then extant approaches to Canadian Protestant Church renewal at the end of the period 1975-78, I embarked on a quest for that information, outside the economic support of the Church structures, which lasted for sixteen years.

Approach Used

• Working outside of the financial support of the institutional Church, attempted to
  1. identify the "missing piece" in current approaches to church renewal,
  2. and a rule-set which would make for the successful implementation of that paradigm, in contemporary Protestant Churches.
• Formed a communications company to generate income and provide an operational base for my research and development work.
• Worked in a variety of other operating platforms, all the while being alert for the above information.
• once the missing piece was found, developed the rule-set for its implementation indirectly in a variety of other contexts, testing components wherever possible.
• carried out preliminary field trials of the full conceptual mix with a variety of clergy.

Current Status

• The "missing piece" was found, amongst the basic premises of academic advising philosophy and approach

• Subsequent pieces were added to the paradigm rule-set
• The various components have been field tested, some quite extensively
• The overall rule-set is ready to be put to full field trials.

Findings To Date

• The missing piece in the church renewal paradigm
• A method of circumventing this identified aspect
• A model for articulating a related split in the Protestant churches
• A method for resolving this historic split
• A number of related program components which serve to empower individuals

Lateral Connections

Required for Completion

• implimentation and dissemination of the concepts in some way.
• recoup of research and development costs.