As I mentioned in my presentation, the reason I presented my paper, "Officially Enacting Vineyard Ecclesiology: Policy Recommendations for Developing Position Papers and Alternative Responses to Theological Controversy", at SVS 2016 is that I hope some other SVS members will want to collaborate with me to develop this initial offering into a fuller set of policy recommendations to assist the international Vineyard community in the future.
To that end, I'd like to gather a group of interested SVS members to think about and further develop this material. If it goes well, I envision the result to be a report that we could present by SVS 2017 that would give AVCs around the world some solid resources.
At a minimum, I think the task of this think-tank would be:
- To further consider the recommendations in the paper's initial formulation and see how they might need to be modified, expanded, augmented, or replaced.
- To expand the scope of the discussion from just discerning when one or another type of position paper is warranted to offering recommendations about how to carry out alternative forms of response to theological controversy.
If there are enough people interested, perhaps we'll put together a working group discussion board here on the forum in order to start digging in. What do you say, folks? Anyone interested in doing some applied ecclesiology?
