1969-1972

1969

Summer 1969    

Global Council IV

• LCX Working Papers on the Local Church
• An Image of Imaginal Education

1970

Council, March 1970

• Spirit Context for the Local Congregation Tactical Model, Closing Session, Joseph Mathews

Global Research Assembly: The Local Church Experiment, July 5 – August 2

Brochures for Summer 70 and Local Church Experiment

Local Church Holding Charts (Complete Set of plates 1 to 14),

Policy Statement on the Initiation of the Local Church Experiment.

• Intro to Local Church Experiment      The Prologue     Inclusive Design of 6 Year Experiment     Instrumental Means      Operations Manual     Priorities of the Tactical System         Tactical Actualization Manual

Tactics:   1 Liturgical Leadership; 2 Crash Education ; 3 Missional Family; 4 Spiritual Odyssey; 5 Corporate Structures; 6 Quarterly Retreats; 7 Advanced Studies; 8 Regional Teaching; 9 Religious House; 10 Global Movement; 11 Congregational Ministry; 12 Parish Sign; 13 Liturgical Reform

Social Dynamics of Humaness

Talks:  Opening Address: Four Principles Behind the Local Church Strategy, Joseph Mathews;  Prayer Chart Lecture, Scott, David; On Being the Movement as the Local Church, Rick Deines; GRA Week I Accomplishments, Steve Allen

Global Council V

• Documents

1971

Popular Preaching, Joseph Slicker, January 4

NSV Overview: Research Systems Method, February; New Christianity Is Here, Editorial, Bill Reece, February 14

Presidium, March

• State of the Movement, Mark Poole, March 12;  Galactic Import, Charles Moore, March 12
• LCX Study Manual, Quarter I;  Quarter II;  Quarter III;   Spirit Edge of Black Churchmen, Larry Ward;   Charting as a Life Method, Robert Shropshire

Global Research Assembly: The New Social Vehicle 

Psalms, Gogarten, Social Methods

• • GRA Organization Design;  Week I Time Design
  • Documents:   A: Dynamical Relations of the Social Process and book;  B:  Matrices of Contradiction;  C: All the Earth Belongs to All the People;  D: Preproposals, Radical Relations, Targt Tertiaries;  E: Proposal Synopsis and 77 Proposals;  F: Compend of Philosophical Presuppositions and Methods;  G; Spirit Movement Missional Imperatives; plus Social Process Triangles and 3×3s
  • New Social Vehicle Research Methods Flow and Proposal Procedures;  Social Process Dynamic Relations;  Operations Timeline Method for Tertiary Actualization
  • Toward a Practical Vision of the New Social Vehicle 1 The Five Pillars of Analysis;  Toward a Practical Vision of the New Social Vehicle 2: The Social Processes; and Toward a Practical Vision of the New Social Vehicle 3 – 77 Proposals.
    • • Cultural Triangles: Language and Art, Joseph Mathews;  Cultural Triangles: Education and Style, Joseph Mathews, June 27
      • Social Processes book by Maureen and Jon Jenkins, 1997
  • Document A: Social Process Dynamics, July 8; Gestalted Ideological Principles: Levels 2-4; NSV Philosophical Presupppositions and Methods
  • Corporate Reading Research Guide;  Recommended Reading List of 500;  Portfolio Library
  • Comprehensive Experiment in the Reconstruction of the Local Church: The Prologue
  • • New Social Vehicle Methods Flow ;   Proposal Procedures
    • Toward a Practical Vision of the New Social Vehicle 1 The Five Pillars of Analysis,1972Toward a Practical Vision of the New Social Vehicle 2: The Social Processes, 1972
    • Toward a Practical Vision of the New Social Vehicle 3 – 77 Proposals, 1972  View each of the 77 proposals hereASIC SUMMER 71 DOCUMENTS
  • Talks:  0 Level Dynamics of Social Theoretics, June 20;  Opening Convocation Address,  Joseph Mathews.; Little Big Man, Joseph Mathews; Psalms Methodology,Joseph Mathews;  Ecumenical Parish, Venod Parekh, July 8;   Identifying Principal Contradiction, Joseph Mathews, July 17;  Pro, Dis and Tran-Establishment, Gene Marshall, Jully 18; Address to Final Plenary, Bishop James Mathews.; Concluding Plenary Address, Joseph Mathews, July 31

Global Council VI – July

• Document H: Guidelines on Movement Instensification;Missional Imperatives of the Spirit Movement Document G Manifesto
• Social Methods Group Task Accountability, August 26
• Guidelines on Movement Intensification
• What Happened in Summer ’71?,  Gene Marshall, August 8;  Arenas of Research, Research Network, Order Council Planning, August 27
• Talks:  Religious House Report,Fred Hess, August 22

September – December

• NSV PSU Proposal Cleaning, Fall 1971
• Talks:  Saying Yes to Destiny:  Gogarten Review, Phil Townley, November 1971; Spirit Analysis of the Movement, Gene Marshall, December 1971; State of the Movement, Don Steinle, December 1971

Missional Imperatives of the Spirit Movement Document G Manifesto

• • NSV PSU Proposal Cleaning, Fall 1971

• Presidium 
  • Local Church PSU, December;  Document H: Guidelines on Movement Intensification
  • Talks:  Toward An Inclusive Tactical System for NSV, Joseph Mathews, Fall;  Gogarten and the History of Christology, Phil Townley, September 17; Blessed are the Poor In Spirit, Ed Shinn, September 18;   Symbols, David McCleskey, October 3;  Saying Yes to Destiny:  Gogarten Review, Phil Townley, November;  Local Church Project, Joseph Mathews, November 19;   Dynamic of Research, Jim Wiegel, November 30;   Spirit Analysis of the Movement, Gene Marshall, December;  State of the Movement: Called to Walk in the Way, Don Steinle, December; Tactical system as Radical Incarnation, Don Cramer, December 8; State of the Local Church Experiment, John Bengel, December 8;  Movement Tactics for the Next 20 Years, Joseph Mathews, December 11;   Spirit Analysis of the Movement: Those Who Wait on the Lord, Gene Marshall, December 10

B

1972 

Presidium, March

• The Next 20 Years, Frank Hilliard, March 17

Global Research Assembly: The Great Turn

The Other World

• The Year of the Great Turn, I.E., Volume 8, Number 5

• Assembly Flow

• Report at the Great Turn

• GRA Dynamics

• Movement Designs and Nine Master Strategies

• Compend:  Collection of Philosophical Preuppositions and Method Techniques

• Talks:  New Social Vehicle Lectures, June; Opening Plenary, Joseph Mathews; The Next 20 Years, Frank Hilliard; Intro to the Other World, July 3; Visit to the Other World In This World;  Tactical Systems: The Direct and Indirect Approaches, Joseph Slicker; The Great Fast, July 18; Final Plenary,: Tactical System for the 20 Year March, Joseph Mathews

• Ecclesiola Guide

• Final Documents:  Movemental Strategy Designs;  Nine Primary Designs of the Movement;  Philosophical Presuppositions and Methodological Techniques

• Partiicipant List

Global Council VII