What is A New Testament Trilogy?
 

A New Testament Trilogy: Our God, Ourselves, Our Community - A Journey of Radical RediscoveryThe Trilogy stream of resources is based on the book A New Testament Trilogy (2005) by Tom Johnston & Mike Chong Perkinson (order a copy here.) At the core of this book is the idea that in our day, God is taking His Church on a journey of radical rediscovery, helping us to rediscover the truth of the New Testament scriptures and what they have to say about what the Church is all about.

A New Testament Trilogy looks at the three key issues of the Christian life: Our God, Our Self, and Our Community – revisiting what the New Testament has to say about the nature of God, the nature of our identity in Christ, and the nature of the Church as God’s Kingdom community.
 

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What are the Trilogy Resources?
 

From this journey of rediscovery twelve tools have been developed based on the discipleship practice of Jesus. These are developmental experiences and training materials designed along the principles found in A New Testament Trilogy. They are both learning environment and training content. The purpose of these resources is to intentionally, relationally and organically shape leaders and their congregations. Designed for simplicity and ease of use, the resources will be available for download via this website, and include text, presentation and multimedia files.  More resources will be added through 2008. Below are brief descriptions of each resource.

 


Discovering God’s Intended Purpose and
His Preferred Pathway For Your Life

This training tool begins the discipleship pathway and will help develop men and women into disciples of Jesus that know who they are in Christ, know their capacity for life in the Kingdom of God, and know their destiny. More simply, to know why they are here and who they are. Foresight helps us understand how God’s hand has been in our lives since our birth. How He has shaped us to be the people we are, giving a passion for life and a clear understanding of why you were created.
 


A Journey of Radical Rediscovery

Training tool for use with pastors and church leaders wrapped around the core Trilogy concepts. This is the doorway to understanding Trilogy and using Trilogy resources. The Crossing is an extremely dangerous encounter with Jesus in which participants evaluate their identity, ministry and ecclesiology. Not for the faint of heart, this encounter with God will ruin you for "church as usual."  This tool can be used for leadership development in the local church, helping those leaders move into a deeper understanding of who God is, who they are in Him, and what the Church is supposed to be from a biblical perspective.
 


An Introduction to Core New Testament Principles
for Pastors and Church Leaders

InFusion is a eight-session leadership training tool based on core New Testament concepts. An excellent resource for introducing the organic principles taught by Jesus.
 


The Pathway of a Disciple

A simple process for making new disciples the way Jesus did – taking discipleship beyond the classroom into every aspect of life. Something you can do, and something you can teach others to do. Based on Jesus’ principles of ministry.  Making disciples is what Jesus has commanded us to do, and this resource can be used either as a self-study tool for leaders or as a development process for a church leadership team.
 


The Descent to Servant-leadership

The only limitation on the harvest is laborers (Luke 10:2). Start making leaders from the harvest for the harvest. Journey provides both content and context for pastors who want to develop leaders in their local church. This resource will help you develop a leadership track that fits both your gifting and your church environment. Use it as a self-study tool or to take your leadership team through it as a means of making your own system.
 


Developing Your Missional Focus
Coming Fall 2008

 


The Doorway to Your Destiny
Beta 1 version files now available - Sessions 1-16

In the western world, there are not enough churches or enough pastoral leaders to fulfill the mandate of the Great Commission. Emerge is a resource designed to help you develop shepherds – pastors for existing churches, staff pastors and church planters. This is the same process used in Praxis training world-wide, and will be available for you to use.
 


Church Planter Assessment in a New Testament Framework
Coming Soon!

 


A Stairway to Starting New Communities

The Quest is church planter intensive training for use with church planters, their spouses and core community team members. The Quest is a principle-based, non-model specific, three day intensive designed to help those involved in forming a new Christian community think through and develop a step-by-step plan as to how they will implement their vision. Resources include these files: Facilitator's guide, participant’s workbook and the associated PowerPoint presentation. Denominational Leaders: Quest can be used by your group. Ask us how.
 


Pastoral Mentoring in Community
Coming in 2008

 


Evaluating Spirituality, Community & Mission
Final version (v2008) now released! (June 2008)

Vista is a pastoral and church health assessment tool developed around the Irreducible Core (IC) of the Christian faith, namely loving God, loving others and making disciples. These three elements of the IC become the evaluation criterion for the pastor in their life and ministry as well as for the life and ministry of the congregation which they lead.

The resource is broken down into three phases - the first phase is the pastoral health assessment. The second phase assesses the environment and the core ministry processes of the church. The third phase is a resourcing dialogue based on the information gathered from the first two phases, focusing on what is needed to improve the health and vitality of the pastor and the church.
 


Setting a Course to God’s Preferred Future
Coming in 2008

Strategic formation for existing churches. Let the Lord open your eyes to see the potential of your church’s future, and how to partner with Jesus in fulfilling His divine call on your congregation. You love Jesus and you love the people you pastor – but you couldn’t plan your way out of a paper bag. Take it to the next level through Horizon’s intentional planning tools.
 

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Contextualized Church Development Process

Denominational and network leaders: Interested in developing your existing churches using the Trilogy Resources as a holistic, integrated process? If so, LifeFlow could be for you. LifeFlow is a consultation process which allows you to re-orient churches around the spiritual DNA of the “Irreducible Core of the Christian faith” – loving God, loving others and a lifestyle of disciple making (Matthew 22:37-40, 28:18-20). We can train your leadership team to work with your pastors to enhance their relationship with God, and develop relational and ministry skills with the result of more and better disciples being made in their churches. If you are interested to find out how we can bring this training to you, contact us.

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