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 IV: Cultivating/Catalyzing

Characteristics: confident in leading, called & calling, capacity building, courageous, co-create
Focus: Cultivate OTHER’s maturing in faith and catalyze their engagement in God’s Mission

• How am I called to companion others?
• How can I invite others into discipleship?
• How can/do I pass on faith to others?
• How do I spark other’s engagement in God’s Mission?

Pedagogical Stage: BLOOM’s TAXONOMY: Evaluating, Creating

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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:

• Facilitate others’ exploration of the connections between our Individual Stories, our collective stories, and God’s Story from multiple perspectives.
• Teach others how to engage theological resources for personal and communal reflection and response.

Episcopal Tradition:

• Lead opportunities to learn about the Episcopal Way and its foundational elements and their role in life choices.
• Lead the development and implementation of ideas/ programming to incorporate growth, reflection, and continued practice that leads to deepening of Episcopal Identities.
• Encourage ministry collaborations that utilize the gifts of the laity in partnership with deacons, priests and bishops.
• Guide others’ discernment of ways to use their gifts in the faith community.
• Assist others with their prayer life.
• Train liturgical leaders.

Theology:

• Create opportunities to restore unity with God and others in Christ and develop processes/practices to dismantle barriers for individuals and community members to claim their belovedness in God.
• Teach the community to understand sin and grace.
• Call my faith community to deeper reflection on its role in God’s Mission and mentor others in recognizing God’s invitation to them as members of the Body of Christ.
• Create opportunities for community members to critically engage and systematically study our human experience of God and deepen our relationship with God.
• Teach the interconnections of history, theology, and moral decision-making based in Scripture, the Baptismal Covenant, the Book of Common Prayer.

Representing Christ:

• Equip others for their discernment and gifts appreciation.
• Recognize and cultivate the gift/s of others.
• Seek ways to empower my faith community to understand historical inequities and suffering caused by religion and indifference.
• Invite and inspire others to claim their place in God’s Mission.
• Prepare members for participation and leadership in worship.
• Prepare others for leadership roles.

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

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Scripture:

• Share the Christian Story while equipping others’ learning and questioning.
• Equip others to share God’s story in a variety of ways.
• Lead communal reflections on contemporary circumstances, issues and concerns, and facilitates communal responses to them.

Episcopal Tradition:

• Create and lead rituals inspired by my faith in my public community.
• Create environments where life’s questions can be engaged in faith-filled ways from lots of perspectives.
• Host gracious and brave conversations with guidelines for sharing that honor all perspectives.

Theology:

• Teach others how to listen to voices from the margins and develop justice-seeking responses that address systemic injustice.
• Embrace diversities with and among cultural and religious groups.
• Risk asking and leading dialogue of unspoken questions.
• Facilitate the creation of opportunities to join God’s Mission with others.

Representing Christ:

• Inspire others to right relationships with God, self, others and all creation.
• Create space for healing and reconciling.
• Seek ways to empower my wider community to understand historical inequities and suffering caused by religion and indifference.
• Engage in ongoing collaboration with the wider community to speak truth to power.
• Monitor coherence between what I/we say and what I/we do.

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Okay, I’ve reflected on all four of the thresholds, and I’ve written some of my reflections in my discernment journal. I feel much clearer about where I am in my Christian Life of Faith.

What’s my next step?

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