As you continue on your journey, we recommend that you keep a journal of your reflections. That way, when you decide to visit with trusted friends and family or with your Rector, Vicar, or Head of Congregation, you will have these reflections to take with you and guide your conversation with them.

Highlight or write down the ones you feel competent in as well as the ones that are areas of growth for you. Reflect on the ones you identify.

Threshold II: Engaging

Characteristics: seeking, connecting, exploring
Focus: Energies primarily oriented to engaging in community

• What gifts do I bring to the community?
• What value do I add? How/What am I contributing?
• How do my relationships help me understand God more fully?

Pedagogical Stage: BLOOM’s TAXONOMY: Applying

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SIGNS WITHIN THE FAITH COMMUNITY (Formation)
I feel confident and competent in and am able to:

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Scripture:

• Find self in the Christian Story (biblical and beyond).
• Familiar with the foundational Scriptural stories that form the story of Salvation. is the foundational text of the Christian faith.

Episcopal Tradition:

• Appropriate scripture, tradition, and reason (with experience) to inform life and use as the basis of my theological reflection.
• Identify as an Episcopalian which includes familiarity with the Baptism, Eucharist, sacramental rites, creeds, and Book of Common Prayer (BCP).
• Understand Episcopal polity, its historic relationship with the Anglican Communion and the relation of parish, diocesan, provincial and church-wide structures.
• Understand the nature of ministry and honor different roles within the whole Body of Christ and recognize connections between church history, liturgy, ethics and social action.
• Commit to a discipline of corporate and individual prayer and worship.
• Understand the history and practice of Episcopal worship.

Theology:

• Practice ways of helping others recognize and claim their belovedness.
• Confront sin in myself and in the world and recognize the power of forgiveness.
• Understand and value being a member of the body of Christ.
• Deepen relationship with God through critical engagement with scripture and traditions of Christian thought.
• The Baptismal Covenant and the Book of Common Prayer, and scripture inform my life/worldview.

Representing Christ:

• Recognize the joys and obligations of Christian commitment.
• Appreciate the gifts of others.
• Engage in ongoing self-reflection about difference to understand historical inequities and suffering caused by religion and indifference.
• Participate in spiritual growth opportunities in my faith community.
• Participate in community worship, and miss it when I am absent
• Develop important relationships in my faith community.

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SIGNS IN THE WORLD (Evangelization)
I feel competent and confident in and am able to:

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Scripture:

• Hear God’s Story from multiple perspectives.
• Articulate how to Integrate God’s Story in my life.
• Embrace the Biblical imperatives to love God and to love our neighbors as ourselves.

Episcopal Tradition:

• Understand the rituals of my faith tradition as part of larger interfaith/global tradition.
• Articulate what I believe about my faith with others & what distinguishes it from other faith traditions/ denominations.
• Understand that the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion give public witness to contemporary challenges.

Theology:

• Commit to loving God and my neighbor.
• See God’s radical love in everyday life.
• Recognize my responsibility for all of God’s creation.
• Acknowledge the imperative to join God’s Mission for the world.

Representing Christ:

• Strive to love others regardless of our differences or perceived differences.
• Engage my neighbor in response to my faith.
• Apply my faith when addressing issues.
• Participate in conversations that raise spiritual questions with people who do not share my faith tradition.
• Participate with my church to address needs in my community.

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As we move forward, remember you are discerning…listening…exploring for the purpose of calling and clarification…hoping for a greater depth of meaning, belonging, and purpose than you are currently experiencing.

You are wondering about deeper participation in the life of the church and your community and ways of practicing a Christian life of faith.

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