Many of the necessary Kingdom advances today require teams to write the manual as they go. And for some of you providing supervision to others, you’re going to have a hard time with giving them this absolutely necessary freedom.
This does not mean teams must create something from nothing. Rather, the how-to guide has not been written for how to take what exists and forge into new territory.
What manuals do exist were written for a society that existed 10, 20, 100, 500 years ago.
For most people, this is a scary place. Those who write manuals are the ones who live on the border of structure and chaos. Of course, Kingdom advancement has always been located here (Acts 10; 11, 13-14) and should not be a scary place. Where there is no manual, there is great dependence on the Spirit.
There is no manual for:
Church revitalization when 90% of the churches in your denomination are declining.
Reaching unreached people groups in a land where most evangelicals do not see these strangers next door.
What to do when seminary enrollment is on the decline. Or, what to do when your large numbers of seminary graduates are entering into a saturated ministerial marketplace.
How the mission agency is to thrive when funds are hard to come by.
Reaching the 3,000 unengaged-unreached people groups across the world.
Tackling the challenges that come with our highly globalized and urbanized world.
Etc..