Level 2: Core Documents—
Contemporary Expressions of Our Foundational Documents
What Level 2 is For: Level 2 provides the shared documents that define our network’s identity, beliefs, priorities, and direction. These documents express the apostolic pattern in contemporary, actionable form so churches and leaders can operate with clarity, unity, and intentional alignment in real contexts.
What You Will Find Here: You will find core documents that articulate how our network understands mission, discipleship, leadership, doctrine, and strategy today. Each document is shaped by the biblical and historical foundations in Level 3 and designed to give churches a common theological vocabulary and a shared sense of purpose as they start, strengthen, and multiply.
How to Use Level 2: These documents are meant to be read together, discussed openly, and applied thoughtfully. They help churches align their decisions, structures, and practices around shared convictions rather than personal preference or local habit. Level 2 functions best when it is received as a common reference point that guides judgment, cooperation, and long-term faithfulness across the network.
Our Network Design: How Everything Fits Together: Explains how vision, mission, strategy, leadership development, and resources relate within a unified network structure.
Vision: Starting, Strengthening, & Multiplying Churches: Explains the long-term aim that shapes our priorities, decisions, and measure of faithfulness.
Mission: Make Disciples of All Nations: Explains the governing assignment Jesus gave the church and how it directs all ministry activity.
Core Values and Purposes: Explains the convictions that guide how we pursue mission, relate to one another, and steward responsibility.
Beliefs: Our Statement of Faith: Explains the core doctrines we affirm together as churches under the authority of Scripture.
Strategy: The Apostolic Cycle: Explains the repeatable pattern by which the apostles advanced the gospel and formed churches.
Our Approach to Making Disciples: Explains how we understand discipleship as a whole-life process shaped by Scripture, community, and obedience.
Overcoming Obstacles to Making Disciples in Our Networks: Explains common pressures and failures that hinder disciple-making and how churches can respond faithfully.
Core Concepts: Our Unifying Vocabulary: Explains the shared terms and definitions that allow churches to think, speak, and decide together with clarity.
How Level 2 Serves the Library: Level 2 translates the foundations of Level 3 into shared direction for today, and it gives Level 1 its coherence and boundaries. Together, these core documents provide the theology, vocabulary, and judgment needed for churches to move forward in unity, clarity, and faithfulness.