Order Council

August 1­2, 1972

TWENTY YEARS	1. As an Order, we stand at the end of twenty years in our life and mission, facing a turn toward the world during the next 20 years. The time has come to set forth our present wisdom about the continuing experiment of being an Historical Order. This document is our first inclusive reflection on 20 years of practical experimentation with the Order dynamic. It describes the arenas toward which we point to portray an historical order in the age in which we live. It is a sketch of the various manifestations of an historical order called to our corporate self­consciousness from our practical experimental wisdom. It is not a definitive statement on an historical order, and cannot be 80 understood. Rather, it is a working draft, in which may be found overlapping descriptions and even contradictory interpretations. Our intention in writing and publishing it at this time is to provide fruitful data and suggest useful directions for further research. We began our work with the definitional context which is found in the following three paragraphs.
MOVEMENTAL ORDER	2. The Movemental Order is expressed in those colleagues out of the total Movement of the Holy Spirit in our day who stand as the Order, convey its understanding, and do its mission in the midst of the social context. Fate has bound them to some particular station in life. The Movemental Order, while not available for global deployment, embraces global responsibility by receiving assignment within the context of their vocational and geographical limits. This assignment, therefore, turns fate into the Divine Providence of a significant election.
EXTENDED ORDER	3. The Extended Order has committed itself totally to being the Order and in principle could be a part of the Symbolic Order. They are under full assignment and are strategically assigned to a social station to represent, embody, and execute the mission of the Order. Their commitment to the Order is no less than the Symbolic Order.
SYMBOLIC ORDER	4. The Symbolic Order is the symbol and sign of the total Order. It embodies in fact the decision of the Order to be a particular presence in history. The move to live in the ghetto, for example, is in fact as well as in spirit. It is the least deployed into society while it is the most sociologically observable form of the Order as the Order.
DOCUMENT CREATION	5. The Historical Order Document was written August 1­2, 1972, by the Order Council at Base Centrum, Chicago. Building on the Designs work of the Summer '72 Research Assembly, the Order workshopped and corporately wrote its present images of the dynamics of the historical order. The rational frame was designed to hold the diverse wisdom of the Order in all its richness. This document, therefore, is written from the particular data of the Order's experience. Reordering the rational frame in the light of that data is a task which is yet to be done. The structure of this document follows the outline of three major dynamics of the historical order. Its basic content describes each of those three dynamics first in its objective sociological form, then in its discipline, and thirdly in its operation. Thus it holds in a uniform pattern the unique distinctiveness of the Movemental Order, the Extended Order, and the Symbolic Order in our time. the rational frame in the light of that data is a task which is yet to be done. The structure of this document follows the outline of the three major dynamics of the historical order. Its basic content describes each of those three dynamics first in its objective sociological form, then in its discipline, and thirdly in its operation. Thus it holds in a uniform pattern the unique distinctiveness of the Movemental Order, the Extended Order, and the Symbolic Order in our time.

OVERALL INTRODUCTION

MOVEMENTAL ORDER	6. The Movemental Order stand self-consciously before the suffering of the world and responds by deciding to be the front line servants covenanted within the dynamic of the global historical order. Their destinal vocation is a particularized and localized form of mission to which they are assigned. The overall thrust of the assignment for the Movemental Order is defined by the strategies, tactics and timelines of the Movement. Consequently, the Movemental Order is the dynamic through which the Historical Order is engaged at the grass roots as direct catalytic agents. In this way, the Movemental Order holds the Movement accountable to its task and holds the whole Order dynamic accountable to concrete historical reality.
PARTICULAR COMPOSITION	7. The Historical Order calls forth those who have self-consciously decided to be the ordering­dynamic in the most particular situation. These are the secular/religious businessmen, professionals, ecclesiastical leaders and political representatives who are fated to a particular life station. The scope of the Movemental Order embraces those who are responsible to God for the world.
SOCIETAL FUNCTION	8. The Movemental Order in the dynamic of the Historical Order first acts as the front­line servant which is the locally committed grass root leadership and the financial support of the Movement. It is the local grounding of the Order style within the establishment structures. It is the representative and defender of the Symbolic Order, embodying and relating Movement philosophy that provides strategic continuity. Lastly, as the visible church, it sustains and provides the machinery of local care and stirs the consciousness of the neighbor.

1. LOCALIZED COVENANT

OVERALL DESCRIPTION

9. The form of the Movemental Order is Localized Covenant, consisting of Foundational Roles, Delimited Structures, and Covenantal Designs. This covenant sets the context for the missional relationships embodied by the ovementa1 Order and manifested in the Foundational Roles assigned by the Historical Order. The Localized Covenant also sets the context and direction for concrete engagement in the task of the Historical Order. This engagement is delimited by the particular structures of the Movemental Order such as Missional Institutes, Geo­social Conclaves, and Polis Ecclesiolas. Finally, this covenant provides the corporate operational accountability for the assigned tasks through its Covenantal Designs. Within the context of the Movemental Order member's vocation, family, and geographical limits, this covenant transforms fate into meaningful destiny.

FOUNDATIONAL ROLES

GENERAL DESCRIPTION	Local Foundational Roles give self­conscious form to the Movemental Order's decision to be the global Order in the local situation. Within the Historical Order these roles focus the universal context within a particular situation where a self­conscious Order member acts out his missional decision, and identify the individual's participation in the Order. The role or roles define a story of missional engagement and enable him to "reap the unique ­ ­ gift he is to the mission. The region's unique style is created out of the embodiment of those roles; the sustenance of the individual 's spirit is assured by participation in the symbolic life of the Order. The characteristics of each role may be embodied individually or corporately; they are not mutually exclusive but one individual may embody more than one role for missional effectiveness.
ORDER AMBASSADORS	11. The Order Ambassadors are those covenanted with the Historical Order who work with the regional dynamic through Movement structures such as the Religious House. As part of the Order they provide leadership for the region and relate the Movement and the Order to ecclesiastical and social dynamics, preparing the way for Movement activity at all levels. Task initiators are those who build overall regional/metro rationales and models and assure completion of the necessary deed. Regional gurus discern the mood of the region or metro, and provide creative intellectual and spirit leadership. Iron men are established individuals who serve as intermediaries and provide common ground for the meeting of Movement, Order, ecclesiastical and societal forms, providing the common thread in the social web.
LOCAL ACTUALIZERS	12. Local Actualizers stand within the local situation, committed to specific Movement tasks and experiments, and working for change in the local situation where they are deeply and totally committed. Resource providers are the stewards of unique and irreplaceable resources which provide backing for the Order and Movement as a whole in limited by significant availability. NSV envisioners are the indirect tacticians, the subtle embodiers of the NSV in the every day. Community servants are the indispensible citizens.who employ their servant roles within the community for direct missional use.

PRACTICAL SUSTAINERS

Practical Sustainers are those grassroots people who, operating out of the RS­I context, see themselves as the broad­based supporters of the mission of the Historical Order. These people are the prototype for how most men can participate in the NSV, for they are a practical observable example to every man of the possibility of immediate particular engagement. Dedicated recruiters are those whose stance is systematic, thorough, and evangelistic. Financial supporters are committed to assuring the financial support of missione1 activities. Local enablers provide resources and transparently perform the missional task.

DYNAMICAL RELATIONS

14. Foundational Roles are related dynamically to each of the other forms of the Movemental Order, and to the forms as a whole. Foundational Roles creates Delimited Structures by demanding tasks that require troop involvement; it limits Delimited Structures by defining specific roles of involvement; it sustains Delimited Structures by organizing the troops for involvement. Foundational Roles creates Covenantal Designs by demanding the context of partici pation; it limits Covenantal Designs by requiring actualization of intentions; it sustains Covenantal Designs by providing examples of obedience to the covenants. Foundational Roles create Localized Covenant in giving a framework of involvement, it limits Localized Covenant by providing guidelines; it sustains Localized Covenant by providing the nurture of constant involvement.

DELIMITED STRUCTURES

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The second aspect of the Localized Covenant of the Movemental Order is Delimited Structures. These are the structures through which the Movemental Order concretely embodies the total vision and task of the Historical Order. They are the social framework in which the Movemental Order shows up. It expends itself through these structures in global mission in the particular locale which is its chosen fate. These structural forma provide the polity, priorship, nurture, and missional direction for the Movemental Order.

MISSIONAL INSTITUTES

16. The Missional Institute is the delimited structural form which directly engages the Movemental Order in the external thrust of the Historical Order within the given fated limitations of the members of the Movemental Order. The Missional Institute is the structure by which the Movemental Order is concretely engaged in recruitment, nurture, and social outreach within a specific geo­social area. This Missional Institute is not a structure apart from the current on­going structures of the Order and Movement, rather it delineates a peculiar structural form of missional engagement which characterizes the Movemental Order. Penetration team indicates the form which engages the Movemental Order in the recruitment, teaching and enabling of courses. Formulation team is the form by which the Movemental Order is uniquely engaged in the task of catalyzing, giving form to, and sustaining the Movement. The permeation team is the form by which the Movemental Order is engaged in actualizing the New Social Vehicle in certain given structures.

GEO­SOCIAL CONCLAVES	17. The third delimited missional structure is the Geo­social Conclaves which include regional centrum, metro modules and polls units. These Conclaves are primarily responsible for comprehensive caring of the Spirit Movement. Regional centrum is the inclusive polity dynamic which is responsible for the appropriate overall contexting of Movement forces and the inclusive assignment rationales. The metro modules are the missional priory of the region who in their various metros operate out of common time designs and operational formats. The polls unite who are responsible for providing trained missional priorship of the polis are obedient to the module priory. The Conclaves set the overall context for the Movement's decision making, provide the trained priors who guard the comprehensive vision, and give directions for concrete missional tasks.
POLIS ECCLESIOLA	One of the delimited missional structures within the forms of Movemental Order is the Polis Ecclesiola. It is designed to provide comprehensive care for those who grasp themselves as the movemental order dynamic of the Historical Order. It includes the dynamics of spirit intensification, intellectual nurture and appropriation of task assignment and accountability. The forms of spirit intensification would be the spiritized college, while the planning sodality would create a comprehensive context for the teak of relating the ecclesiola to the total mission, and a training seminary which would be the intensified study dynamic which sees that the Movemental Order maintains clarity on the Word and senses after the edge points of engagement relative to the world. The Ecclesiola would appear where needed but the Religious House Ecclesiola would be attended where feasible. Other forma might be a traveling ecclesiola which moved from metro to metro. The point is to provide the Movemental Order with a care construct, not to reduplicate structures. As leadership is the Key contradiction today, it is suggested that the Symbolic Order provide and train ecclesiola leadership.
DYNAMICAL RELATIONS	19. Delimited Structures are related dynamically to each of the other two forms of the Movemental Order, and to Localized Covenant as a whole. Delimited Structures is dynamically related to Foundational Roles by creating particular points of involvement, delimiting the tasks to be accomplished and sustaining a constant demand for participation. Delimited Structures creates Covenantal Designs by calling for structural commitment, limits it by defining the necessary covenant, and sustains it by providing an area of expenditure. Delimited Structures create forma of the Movemental Order by demanding organization of the mission limit them by providing specific actional arenas, and sustain them by setting forth the rationale by which Localized Covenants are created.

COVENANTAL DESIGNS

GENERAL DESCRIPTION	20. The third arena of the Localized Covenant is Covenantal Designs, which illuminates types of covenants within the Movemental Order, and consists of Missional Assignments, Budgeted Resources and Secular/religious Discipline. Covenantal Design objectify the decision to be the Historical Order and enable corporate accountability to that covenant. Missional Assignment provides the form through which assignments are made within the context of one's assigned station, and includes both the Week I and Week II rationale. Budgeted Resources enable missonal use of available resources on the global, regionalis, and local level. The Secular/religious Discipline gives form to the symbolic life to which the Movemental Order has covenanted itself, both the individual/family and corporate aspects common to the Historical Order. Through Covenantal Designs the Movemental Order formalizes the covenant to which it will be held accountable.
MISSIONAL ASSIGNMENT	21. The first form of Covenantal Designs is Missional Assignment, which specifies engagement of time and includes weekly design, special events, and station engagement. Weekly design calls for commitment of selected weekly time through Week I and II assignment patterns to on­going Movemental activities such as ecclesiola, recruitment, and training. Special events assignments refers to the use of time for necessary missional events requiring special skills, such as the assignment of a dentist to a dental convention. Station engagement means assigning a worker to his job 80 that he sees his fated calling as integral to his comprehensive commitment. Missional Assignment call. for an overall time design which sets station, family, and movement teaks in the context of the total mission.
BUDGETED RESOURCES	The second form of Covenant Designs is Budgeted Resources which symbolizes that all resources belong to the mission. One aspect of Budgeted Resources is sustaining the global mission or contributing to the global back­up systems which sustain arenas where the Movement is not yet self­supporting. An example of this is contributions made to the development team or money sent to support the ITI's. A second aspect is regionalis self­support or contributions to keep the Movement self­supporting missionally in the particular regionalis in which a person shows up such as contributions made to support RS­I courses. The third aspect is local enablement or the use of resources to sustain the individual and family, and the local church or extra expenses incurred while on missional assignment. The Movemental Order stands as a sign, through the use of its resources, of total expenditure on behalf of the world.
SECULAR/ RELIGIOUS DISCIPLINE	23. The third form of the Covenantal Designs is Secular/religious Discipline which gives a structured relationship to the symbolic life of the Historical Order. The first aspect of Secular/religious Discipline is the participation of the Movemental Order in the ongoing syrnbolic structures of the Symbolic Order ­­ such as Odysseys, treks, House Church, worship, and celebrations ­­ at the Religious House, during Movemental councils or Local Church Galaxies. The second aspect is participation in particular experiments in individual and family symbolic life. The third aspect of the secular/religious discipline is scheduled participation in corporate religious exercises such as the fast and the watch.

DYNAMICAL RELATIONS

24. Covenantal Designs are related dynamically to each of the other two forms of the Movemental Order and to the entire Localized Covenant. Covenantal Designs create Foundational Roles by demanding style creation; limit Foundational Roles by providing the context of responsibilities; and sustain them by symbolizing accountability. Covenantal Designs create Delimited Structures by providing arenas of expenditure; limit Delimited Structures by demanding consensed participation; and sustain them by providing a common focus. Covenantal Designs create forms of the Movemental Order by articulating the indicative of self­conscious participation; limit forms by proscribing the types of decisions; and sustain them by creating the common mind.

CONCLUSION

OVERALL DYNAMICS

25. Within the Movemental Order Localized Covenant creates Disciplined Collegiality by providing a framework to release self­conscious community; it limits Disciplined Collegiality by defining the arena of missional thrust, and sustains it by rehearsing the common context, in corporate symbolic life. Localized Covenant creates Consensed Operation by organizing common­minded forces in a missional direction; it limits Consensed Operation by defining roles and setting a style; and it sustains it by calling forth the missional family and providing necessary resources. Localized Covenant creates the Movemental Order by naming and organizing it; it limits the Movemental Order by focusing in the arena of commitment to give direction; and it sustains the Movemental Order by giving global commonness and visibility.

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1. DISCIPLINED COLLEGIALITY

INTRODUCTION

OVERALL DESCRIPTION

26. The disciplined movemental spirit man undergoes continual preparation and training within the context of being missionally assigned by the Order. His 1ife is a journey intentionally directed, moving comprehensively out from the spirit deeps toward the futuric restructuring for a global society on behalf of all mankind. Toward this end he wills his time, his money, his gifts as a celebrational human being who is a concrete sign of the new individual in the new society.

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COMMON SYMBOLS

GENERAL DESCRIPTION	Common Symbols is that reality in the life of the Movemental Order which focuses its worship 1ife and points to its commonness in relation to the other dynamics of the Historical Order. Corporate Worship enables a Movemental Order member to rehearse his common life­understanding, recalling his individual decision to be one of the People of God. Religious Exercises dramatize and intensify his discipline as a solitary man of faith. Covenant Symbolics consists of myths, rites, and symbols thst remind him of his decision to participate in the ordering dynamic of history.
CORPORATE WORSHIP	28. Corporate Worship is the activities of common offices, corporate rituals and special celebrations, which enable the Movemental Order to rehearse the way it is; thereby evoking a self­conscious decision to participate in an inclusive corporate order. Common offices are those regularly scheduled corporate times when the spiritman intentionally rehearses the way life is; this would be daily morning office, Geneva offices and local church worship services. Corporate rituals are those informal times when the corporate body acts out life's drama through singing, special prayers, and accountability and absolution. Special celebrations are those crucial times when key turning points of life are dramatized corporately such as rites of passage, church year rites and special work days.
RELIGIOUS EXERCISES	In the aspect of Religious Exercises, we see the Movemental Order in the discipline of solitary office, corporate practices and journey reflection. The solitary office calls for the rehearsal of life as one reality through meditation, contemplation and prayer. There is a myriad of rehearsal activities such as the odyssey, the watch, the fast, and log­keeping that are corporate practices which allow the strengthening of the spirit depths of an individual. In the midst of the task, journey reflection enables the journey to the center by means of the solitary study, discontinuity and journal keeping. These various exercises sustain the solitary decision to be a man of faith.
COVENANT SYMBOLICS	30. Covenant Symbolics, which functions to remind the Movemental Order of its covenantal relationship with the Historical Order, includes common icons, particular rituals, and vocational atory. Common icons

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to broaden the context and to move toward leadership. Picking

up the priorship role includes accepting training assignments

for leadership positions (such as Regional Council planning) or to

a practice workshop, where strategies and tactics for a particular

situation will be produced.

QUARTERLY ASSIGNMENT

35. Quarterly Assignment is the over­all rationale for the quarter that gives form to the movemental thrust and spells out how it is that every Movemental Order member will participate in the movement. It includes the Week I and Week II track assignment and within the tracks, assignment to specific tasks such as recruitment, course enablement, child care, pedagogy, advanced courses, regional structures, guild or a local church cadre. Strategic role assigns the Movemental Order person to particular occupational work and/or to the permeation of secular structures and organizations within the community. The polity rationale designs the internal relationships that hold the Movemental Order person in care structures such as teams and units. Through Quarterly Assignment every Order member responsibly engages in the impact of the movement at the grassroots level.

EXPENDITURE DESIGN

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

37. Expenditure Design describes the three dynamics held in the expenditure of life, first in the building of timelines from the very broad to the more explicit daily actional activities. The second is the context out of which the decisions are made relative to expenditure and the rational form used in holding them. The third is the expenditure and use of available personal resources for missional activities such as house, car, finances and political influence that deal directly with enabling the mission, thus expanding his whole context toward total mission.

TIME DESIGN

38. The Movemental Order engages itself in mission through the use of several time designs. These designs enable a person to order his time so that all of his time enables the mission of the Historical Order. The most comprehensive design is the life timeline. A person recontexts his past and projects his future so that his entire life time is seen as a single expenditure. In order to act out this life timeline, a battleplan is laid over the timeline for the quarter. This locates a person in his role, as he actualizes the missional priorities for the quarter. Finally, a person has a weekly rhythm which meshes all 0a covenant responsibilities into one missional thrust. In this way, the tension of various covenants is held, and the assigned tasks are allotted the necessary time for their completion. In this way, the activity of time designs transforms his chronological time into kairotic time.

VOCATIONAL FORMAT	Making use of destinal rootage the movement assigns itself to every form of the Order's corporate life through a Vocational Format. The emphasis of the Week I form is the ongoing vocation of the movement colleague, his symbolic corporate life with the Order such as ecclesiola meetings, his local church commitments as well as movemental tasks. Week II structures is direct involvement with the corporate order dynamic by working on course recruitment, teaching, and any necessary enablement assignments. With the understanding that all assignments are flexible relative to need, the movemental colleague is ready at all times for special assignments such as making a development call instead of enabling a course.
RESOURCE COMMIT-MENT	40. The arena of Resource Commitment deals with the decision to intentionally expend one's gifts of humanness for the sake of the global mission. There are many ways that Resource Commitment is practically manifested in the Movemental Order. For instance, such material resources that can be used include one's automobile for missional travel; his house and telephone for recruitment and special events; and in some cases, one's business facilities. On the area of occupational extension the Movemental Order member can offer such gifts as his knowledge and skills, business contacts and data for research PSU's. His influence in political and economic circles can also be used for the sake of the mission. And finally, his negotiated budget stands as a sign of his total commitment to the work of the Spirit Movement.
DYNAMICAL RELATIONS	41. Expenditure Design creates Common Symbols by providing the rationale for symbols that are needed; it limits Common Symbols by prioritizing the necessary symbolic life; it sustains Common Symbols by locating one in places where the symbols will be rehearsed. Expenditure Design creates Corporate Assignment by focusing the corporate arena of work; it sustains the Corporate Assignment through continual reminding of the necessity of corporate nurture. Expenditure Designs creates Disciplined Collegiality through delimiting the arena in which time and resources are required; it sustains Disciplined Collegiality through investing individual expenditure in a corporate effort.

CONCLUSION

OVERALL DYNAMICS

42. Within the Movemental Order, Disciplined Collegiality creates Localized Covenant by demanding commonness; it limits Localized Covenant by dictating a covenantal framework; and it sustains Localized Covenant by constant rehearsal of the symbolic life. Disciplined Collegiality creates Consensed Mission by providing accountability and absolution; it limits Condensed Mission by naming the arena of operations, and it sustains Consensed Mission­by building strong troops. Disciplined Collegiality creates the Movemental Order by maintaining a common rhythm and style; it limits Movemental Order by dramatizing seriousness of the mission and by structuring thrust; it sustains the Movemental Order by building a network of collegiality enabling spirit struggle and growth.

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INTRODUCTION

OVERALL DESCRIPTION	43. The operations pole of the dynamic called Movemental Order is described as Consensed Mission. The missionaI task, which embodies the Consensed Mission, strategies and tactics of the movement, defines and prioritizes the particular engagement of the Movemental Order. It can be seen in the sustenance of the ongoing penetration, formulation and demonstration structures of the movement along with the actual economic maintenance of the Historical Order. Again, within the context of the Global Spirit Movement, Consensed Mission engages the Movemental Order in a strategic plan, and the implementation of that plan, which impacts professional, civic and societal structures. And, finally, Consensed Mission creates the dynamic of spiritizing every given situation, such as family or primal community, within the context of the other world. Where one sees such missional tasks going on, one sees the operations of the Movemental Order.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION	The Movemental Order acts as the backbone of the formulation forces in a locale, plays the role of mediator between the movement and establishment, and insures the historical continuity of the movemental thrust on the local level. Movemental Order members can be counted upon to do any Week II assignment, whether it be enabling courses, leading presidiums, or establishing cordial relations with a denominational representative. Also, the Movemental Order is in a position to provide the Order as a whole with a steady flow of both money and in­kind gifts. The stability and respectability of the Movemental Order is a great gift which is sometimes useful to establish a necessary image of the Global Spirit Movement. Finally, within the whole Order the Movemental Order particularly holds the values of respect for history, thorough planning and orderly implementation.
DEVELOPING FORCES	45. The Movemental Order carries out the operation of Developing Forces through the dynamics of area formulation, troop training, and recruitment and enablement. Area formulation is carried out through building the enabling machinery which develops an area beyond its initial stage of penetration by creating course follow­up structures, cadres, and other needed support structures. Troop training is actualized by offering comprehensive curriculum, pedagogical opportunities and priorship training. The recruitment and enablement dynamics are realized by creating comprehensive structures to enlist clergy and laymen for movemental training opportunities while providing the basic practical support systems that enable the training.

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STRATEGIC PERMEATION

GENERAL DESCRIPTION	49. Strategic Permeation as a major operation of the Movemental Order impacts society through Strategic Engagement, where the economic, cultural, and political dynamics are re­contexted by the movement; Strata Impact, which deals with the whole economic, political, and cultural community that surrounds one's work and the movemental contact possible within each strata; and finally the Permeation Guild where research coordination and the implementation of practical model building begins to plot the actual implementation of the seven New Social Vehicle strategies and the regular systematic evaluation of permeation procedures relative to global impact. The Permeation Guild is the key dynamical operational activity in that it gives practical application to the other operational dynamics.
STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT	50. Strategic Permeation as it relates to strategic practical engagement falls into three fundamental arenas ­­ economic investment, political influence and cultural patronage. Economic investment has to do with the availability, access, and usability of funds and resources of and within the movement from corporations, families and designs both outside and within the movement. The investment of, use of, and influence of other's investment and use of global resources is key to the redirection of economic patterns as a whole and to the sustenance of the Historical Order in particular. Political influence relative to Strategic Engagement would point to how the movement strategically plans to use its political relationships for the on­going movement. This influence could impact the political from the local neighborhood contacts, to the state and national, to the international political community. This net of "political" friends could aid in movemental impact across the globe. Cultural patronage as Strategic Engagement has to do first with human motivity and how you engage and encourage those dimensions of the arts and the cultural activities which will provide the human freedom necessary for the implementation of the seven pressure points of the New Social Vehicle. This cultural fellowhood would provide the climate for a global, movemental, grassroots, tactical engagement.
STRATA IMPACT	51. Strata Impact is an arena of operation within Strategic Permeation by the Movemental Order which affirms the reality of an individual's sociological relationships as seen through his occupationa1 thrust, his relationships with the establishment and the community he shows Up in. The Movemental Order member is concerned with building the kind of relationships within his occupational situation which will be helpful in providing resources for the support of the movement. He is concerned with creating the climate within those relationships which ­will make implementation of the New Social Vehicle strategies possible. Beyond his relationships as defined by his occupation, he is working to address and influence the establishment he has access to through the use of the New Individual and Society course and other edge socio­ methodologies. In his given community he demonstrates a self­conscious posture embodying the style of trans­establishment in relation to the issues and problems confronting that community.

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SECULAR EVANGELISM

GENERAL DESCRIPTION	Secular Evangelism is that on­going catalytic agent which exposes the mystery in everyday life. This is accomplished through transforming the particular situation to encompass the comprehensive. This happens when, through popular preaching you enable the drug store clerk to grasp in a brief time his role in the totality of the Social Process. As the family designs itself to be mission, the presence of mystery is known in intentional conversations at meal times. Crucial to the creation of new humanness is the dramatization of radical and joyful embracement of the very particular situation, i.e. expressing your joy at being a file clerk for the next twenty years.
SITUATION TRANSFORMATION	55. Situation Transformation is the dynamics of event contextualizer, comprehensive symbolizer, and popular preaching. Event contextualizer is the role portrayed by one who understands himself to be responsible for seeing that every situation is contexted in such a way as to have it become an event that all present participate in. Comprehensive symbolizer says through decor, rituals, songs and other symbolic activities that the future is created by decision, out of the past established structures, the critique of the dis­establishment and on behalf of all men. Popular preaching is creating the brief but crucial occasions to speak the Word of possibility? through minute courses, to those encountered in daily life and work. Thereby, Situation Transformation enables every situation to burst forth with new creativity and new life.
FAMILY DESIGN	Family Design engages the missional family to be the signal for the possibility of renewal by involving every individual and family in community reformulation. Through such concrete activities as the intentional use of money, the structuring of the gifts of each member of the family within the framework of the consensed family goals and the regulated rehearsal of the family destinal story, a missional de sign is evolved. It is thus that the family is equipped for its role as evangelist of the new life.
DRAMATIZED ROOTEDNESS	The decision to dramatize one's rootedness is the primal community is the self-conscious designing of one's time to accomplish the particular missional task; for example, planning comprehensively and structuring one's vacation to participate in the summer research assembly. The movemental man embodies the servanthood role by being the invisible nobody while enabling the continuation of the task; the cooking of meals for an RS-1 course is an example. Furthermore, while serving and sustaining the task he embraces life, and joyously continues his day to day participation in renewing the world.

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CONCLUSION

SOCIOLOGICAL ARENA	60. Across the whole globe at those points where men have been awakened and motivated to participate in the renewal of the church and society, the Movemental Order appears in local communities, communities which range from small towns to major metropolitan centers. The Movemental Order is found within the whole historical church: in the local congregation, in the administrative and educationa1 bodies related to all of its denominational forms. To find Movemental Order members one would also look to the major occupations or professions. These are especially in the fields of education, medicine, or law, in corporations' in mass media production, or in managerial and secretarial levels. Its dynamic is seen appearing in places of leisure, such as recreational clubs, golfing, surfing, or bowling; or at women's gatherings. As a living reality, the Movemental Order is seen working in and related to service organizations, women's societies, community groups and social service agencies. It plays this role as a method and a means to spreading the Word and being the style of servant to every secular man.
HISTORICAL EMERGENCE	In 20th century society the Movemental Order dynamic emerged in response to the technological revolution which resulted in urbanization and modernization, and in response to mass secularization, which result in the global collapse of religious myths. It emerged when liberal causes and movements proved an inadequate response to these sociological occurrences, and when the resulting despair gave way to a deep passion for life in the midst of its pain and ambiguity. The Movemental Order emerged as men received self­conscious permission to be the awakened ones. It is empowered by the recovery of religious and cultural traditions, by the awareness of individual significance and by the undeniable call to live on behalf of the future. It has come to self­conscious form in response to events such as RS­1, Summer Assemblies and the Academy. Operating with a common story, the Movemental Order stands as the corporately disciplined ones forging out the future at the local level. Self­consciously religious, it demonstrates a life style which is a radical responsibility within and transforming the established society.
SELF­ CONSCIOUS APPEARANCE	62. The Movemental Order becomes visible when the Symbolic Order offers new possibility that is made viable by Extended Order demonstration in an event that illuminates personal election within the Movemental Order. The Movemental Order concretizes the demand to replicate the new possibility in the local situation. The Movemental Qrder visibly participates in Spirit Movement sustenance and expansion such as Order Councils and movement development.

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1. EXTENDED ORDER

OVERALL INTRODUCTION

EXTENDED ORDER	63. The Extended Order is that body of people with the common missional thrust of the Symbolic Order under particular assignment. Due to the crucial uniqueness of their vocational station, they are more valuable in a particular assignment than as the serving order. The Extended Order is commissioned by the serving order to be the manifest demonstration of possibility for local man. It understands itself to be under total assignment and grounds its accountability to the historic order by way of direct relationship to some manifestation of the serving or Symbolic Order. The Extended Order is the concrete bridge between the serving order and the world, serving as the back­up system in implementing models and providing the comprehensive and particular context for the mission at the local level.
PARTICULAR COMPOSITION	The Extended Order is made up of people who have made a self-conscious decision to remain in the local situation to pull off the local demonstration sign. For example, they are people such as the North Shore Cadre and Galaxy Church Pastors. Included are members of the Symbolic Order who have been assigned to serve in the secular world to enable the mission. There are the 5th City Board of Managers who are deeply committed to the Order who live out of assignment rationale, and are the self­conscious church. In addition are members of the Galaxy pastorates who understand themselves as being covenanted and corporate and have given overt declaration of the same.
SOCIETAL FUNCTION	65. The Extended Order is a dynamic of the Historical Order and shows up as assigned where it is best able to serve and enable the mission. He holds the tension of operating as the secular and as the religious. He is dispersed and not gathered as is the case in the Symbolic Order. This enables the Extended Order to operate more covertly than their colleagues in the Symbolic Order. The Extended Order is involved in particular engagement to enable the mission whether that be to show up as a local church pastor, an architect, or a lawyer in a particular location or institution. It is always mobile and usually secular in appearance. It operates as a permeating, penetrating, formulating, researching force on behalf of the Symbolic Order.

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1. PARTICULAR THRUST

OVERALL DESCRIPTION	66. The Extended Order is that body of people with the common missional thrust of the serving order under particular assignments due to the crucial uniqueness of their vocational station. The forms are distinctive only to the extent that it is missionally necessary to accomplish the task. The same economic, political and cultural categories are used in ordering the life style; however, the uniqueness of the mission would particularize them appropo to the situation. For example, training auxiliary forms, station guilds and community, forums, would be used in the Extended Order to maintain its missional assignment. The forms of the Extended Order, then provide unique opportunities for the kind of leadership, training, enablement research and experimentation needed by the Historical Order.
DEMONSTRATION AUXILIARY
GENERAL DESCRIPTION	Demonstration Auxiliary is the arena in which members of the Extended Order pour out their lives into the particularized social demonstration of being the church in the twentieth century. This is shown by such demonstration projects as the 5th City Experiment, the Local Church Experiment and the formation of the Spirit Movement. The 5th City demonstration shows the possibility of community reformulation; the Local Church Experiment demonstrates the possibility of exploding every man's context of responsibility to that of the whole world. Through these demonstrations, the Extended Order participates in the renewal of society.
REFORM- ULATED COMMUNITY	Reformulated Community is the social structure where the Extended Order may serve as a catalytic agent in the replication of models by serving on the Managerial Board, the community council or the social auxiliary. The Managerial Board is that visible group of individuals who create and initiate the necessary models for global community reformulation. The community council understands itself assigned to control and regulate functions and celebrations for the entire community. The social auxiliary is that special task force which is responsible for developing training and injection of spirit in that total community in a strategic manner. The Extended Order shows up in these three aspects of community demonstration.
LOCAL CHURCH	69. The Local Church is the religious body where the Extended Order is able to be prior and catalyzing leadership as part of the Cleric Assignment, Local Consultant or Primal Catalyst. The Cleric Assignment is that group of people who work together in the pastoring of the Local Church. The Local Consultant does the planning and actualyzing of the tactical systems of the Local Church Experiment. The Primal Catalyst is the catalytic leadership. These three bodies form the movemental aspect of the local church in which the Extended Order participates.

SPIRIT MOVEMENT

70. The Spirit Movement in the secular­religious body wherein the Extended Order member transparently enables the regional dynamic in serving as Regional Coordination, faculty or as a worker in a regional or metro office. Regional Coordination is assigned as symbolic and practical head of a region; the faculty is available for teaching assignment anywhere in the region and the metro office handles and coordinates all metro activities within the region. The Extended Order shows up here in the aspect of community demonstration and participation.

DYNAMICAL RELATIONS

71. The Demonstration Auxiliary in relation to the Extended Chapter grounds it in a local community, demands a missional focus, and provides a social vision. The Demonstration Auxiliary in relation to permeation guilds creates a local base, delineates the arena of permeation, and provides structural channels. The Demonstration Auxiliary in relation to the Extended Order forms grounds it in a local community, demands a missional focus, and provides social vision

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EXTENDED CHAPTER

GENERAL DESCRIPTION	The Extended Chapter is the life line of the Extended Order that relates local man to the global mission through inclusive participation in corporate forms of engagement within the family, the Local Church, and the Historical Order. The Training Auxiliary is the means by which the Extended Order becomes equipped for the global task and embodies the decision to take responsibility for the global mission. The Local Ecclesiola is the means by which local man regularly participates in the humanizing dynamics of the global mission which in sure effective engagement within the total Church. The Missional Family provides a framework for primal nurture and decision­making that enables each individual to continually dramatize his destiny as the Extended Order.
TRAINING AUXILIARY	73. The Training Auxiliary is the form which provides the primary relationship between the Symbolic and the Extended Order at the level of participation in depth spirit nurture and training. One form of this training would be a House Sojourner, which would offer experience of the secular­religious life style within the Religious House Design. Participation in the teaching mission of the Order as a Movement Academy staff member would be a means of global engagement and leadership development. The Global Research Net, in such forms as local or metro PSU's and the Summer Research Assemblies, would be led by members of the Extended Order. The Training Auxiliary stands as a sign of what it means to take responsibility for the decisions that shape his destiny.
LOCAL ECCLESIOLA	74. The Local Ecclesiola is that form which creates corporate consensus for missional priorities. Within the Local Ecclesiola, the College Friary is similar to that used by the Symbolic Order in that is provides nurture. The Seminary Rectory of the Local Ecclesiola is similar to that used in the Symbolic Order in that it involves study of material related to the mission. The Sodality Apostolate is similar to the Symbolic Order in that it would include both work shopping and model building relative to station and post assignments. The Extended Chapter sustains the Movemental Order by the corporate method of the Local Ecclesiola in sustaining the spirit life, study, and nurture of the Extended Order.

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75. Missional Family is the primal social unit that provides the

decisional framework out of which missional engagement as the Extended

MISSIONAL Order can emerge. The Family Celebration is the means by which the

FAMILY family ritualizes the decision to receive all of life as a gift and to

symbolize a particular thrust of its missional engagement. Family

Curriculum is the means by which an inclusive context for training

enables the total family's appropriation of cultural wisdom in and

through varied methods and social forms. Family Meeting is the means

by which corporate consensus, tactical palnning, and leadership devel

opment effectively operate in order to actualize the family's mis

sional vision. The Missional Family stands as a sign of total expen

diture for every local man.

76. The Extended Chapter in relation to the Demonstration Auxiliary

provides trained missional forces, demands obedience to corporate

DYNAMICAL models, and provides continually training and nurture resources. The

RELATIONS Extended Chapter in relation to Permeation Guilds prioritizes assign

ments, holds accountability for the task, and enlists troops for

permeation. The Extended Chapter in relation to Extended Order Forms

is the local manifestation of the global, demands corporateness, and

creates common nurture formats.

PERMEATION GUILDS

77. Permeation Guilds are social impact forms in which the extended

order can engage in recreating the social structures of their community

GENERAL and occupational arenas. One section of the Permeation Guild is the

DESCRIPTION Vocational Guild which is the orientation toward a single occupational

arena for the reappropriation of the secular vocation. Another section

of the Permeation Guild is the Community Forum which is a local cross

vocational gathering to provide means for the extended order to parti

cipate with the community in problem solving. The third section of

Permeation Guild is the Cultivation Force in which the Extended Order

team impacts the establishment and the disestablishment structures to

enable specific movemental goals. Thus it is that the Extended Order

is involved in impacting secular society.

78. The Vocational Guild enables the Extended Order to impact the

secular occupational arenas. Educational guilds organize those members

VOCATIONAL of the Extended Order assigned to renew educational structures. Civil

~UILDS guilds focuses the Extended Order forces upon common ways of impacting

the civil structures of society. Social Guilds movilizes the influence

of the Extended Order to impact the servant forms of social welfare.

Thus the Extended Order recreates every occupational arena as a sig

nificant vocational thrust.

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88. Consensed Symbolics is the basis of the discipline of the

extended order. It raises to self­consciousness the self­under

DYNAMICAL standing of the church, holds accountability for all arenas of the

RELATIONS discipline, and rehearses the self­consciousness on a regular basis.

It articulates the universal context for the necessary style, demands

­ depth spirituality and constantly reminds one of the decisional,

resurrectional style. Consensed Symbolics calls forth the decision

to be the trained reliigious, demands that the task be relevant to

the total missional thrust and holds one present to the mystery

in the midst of the everyday task.

COMMISSIONED STYLE

89. Commissioned Style is the structured discipline of the Extended

Order as it directly engages in mission. In covenantal relations

,ENERAL the ~elationship to the Historic Order is articulated through

DESCRIPTION Formaiized Decision, Common Signs and Structural Accountability.

Corporate polity is demonstrated in participation in Consensed

Decisions, Assignment Rationales and Contextualized Obediences.

Resource Design holds missional commissioning through Negotiated

Budget, Time Allocation and Strategic Occupation. Covenantal Relat

ions, Corporate Polity and Resource Designs are discioline forms

directing the missional life of the extended order.

90. Covenantal Relations is the aspect of Commisioned Style that

­ ~ rehearses the corporate disciDline of the life decision to be order

2OVENANTAL in its extended form. Formalized Decision is the corporate symbol

{ELATIONS ization of the radical decision to be the order and imaginally seals

that decision to be in covenant. Structural Accountability, both

symbolic and actual, is the regular rehearsal of obedience to the

covenant and the absolution that objectifies the past and Dronounces

the future open. The Common Sign is the visible or concealed reminder

of the decision to stand within the relationship of covenantal

obedience. It is through Covenantal Relations that the Extended

Order symbolizes and maintains direct ties of obedience with the

Symbolic Order and is that without which the rehearsal of being the

league has no grounding.

91. Corporate Polity is that aspeot of discipline that brings order

to a given body in history and is composed of Consensed Decisions,

ORPORATE Assignment Rationale and Contextual Obedience. The Extended Order

OLITY functions at all times in obedien­e to the consensed will of the

Symbolic Order. The style of the Extended Order is exemplified

in its response of obedience to any and all assignments made by the

Symbolic Order. The category of Contextual Obedience points to the

particular ambiguity in which the Extended Order must operate and

to the fact that while its first response is necessity invariably

"yes" certain contradictions and complexities may need to be specif

ically dealt with in terms of long range strategy and overall miss

ional goals. The operating polity of any group is a crucial dimension

of its style formation.

92. The Resource Design within Commissioned Style of the Extended

Order makes available their human and material resources. Ne~oti~t~d

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97. Signal Demonstrations consists of Global CDnsultations that will demand the laity participate cutting across church hierarchy. Special

SIGNAL Programs such as summer research assemblies will pave the way for

DEMONSTRATIONS sojourner programs and Academy Training which will make obvious the

need for guild participation, hence participation in advanced training

programs.

98. The training dynamic is important in an overall discioline of an

Extended Order because it is that arena which creates, articulates

DYNAMICAL and demonstrates what discipline is. Coordinated Training works to

RELATIONS define the general area itself and studies to give meaning to the

symbolic life and delineates the parameters of style formation.

Without the training dynamic intellectual methods would not be fostered,

depth would not be added and purpose would fade.

99. The Extended Order discipline must be held in tension between

forms and operations. The discipline of the Extended Order creates

OVERALL form by demanding that adequate forms be provided. The discipline

DYNAMICS of the extended order limits form by discerning which forms are

necessary. The discipline of the Extended Order sustains form

by keeping the necessary forms in use. The discipline of the Extended

Order creates operations by demanding a missional focus. The

discipline of the Extended Order limits operations by requiring that

the operations be comprehensive. The discipline of the Extended Order

sustains operations by preparing troops to cary out the operations.

The discipline of the Extended Order creates the Extended Order by

commissioning the Extended Order with a specific task. The discipline

of the Extended Order limits the Extended Order by assigning its

arena of operation. The discipline of the Extended Order sustains

the Extended Order by holding it in constant awaremenss of its function.

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C. ASSIGNED TASK

STRATEGIC IMPACT

100. The Extended Order is comprised of those individuals who are

wholly committed to the twin task of renewing the church for the sake

OVERALL of reconstructing the world. Their commitment is in no wise, nor to

DESCRIPTION any depree whatever, less than the commitment required by those who

belong to the Symbolic or Serving Order. They differ­only in respect

to the assignments which have been given to them: whereas their collea

gues in the Svmbolic Order are assigned to live and work continuously

within the immediate structures of the Order, their colleagues in

the Extended Order are assigned to adapt themselves to schedules,

structures and styles of life which enable their maximum working

effectiveness in the secular structures. They participate fully

in Order disciDline, but the discipline is adaDted to circumstances.

They participate in study and symbolic life but in a fashion which

will not impede them in the other tasks required by their secular

calling. The primary­function of the Extended Order, as opposed to

the Movemental Order and the Symbolic Order, is to maintain the

humanly impossible tension between the demand of the life of spirit

and the demands of this world's concrete practicality. When seen

from the standpoint of this world, the position of the Movemental

Order, the Extended Order is the manifestation of pure symbolic

power, standing amid secular structures. When viewed from the

standpoint of the world of spirit, or from the position of the

Symbolic Order, the encounter with the Extended Order is exDerienced

as pure factual concretion. The Extended Order is responsible

to guard and protect the Symbolic Order against the temptation to

lose itself in flights of ungrounded spiritual vision. At the same

time, the Extended Order guards the primary contradiction of the

Church over the past 500 years. The Serving Order constantly

beckons the cruciform deed and passionate concern for the suffering

of the world. The relationships among the Symbolic, the Extended

and the Movemental dynamics are not based on morality, or upon

gradations of loyalty to some cause. Rather, they are founded upon

facts of geographical and Dersonal contingency and availability.

101. The Extended Order, by its nature, is in a strategic position

to lay a substantial nart of the groundwork for the building of

,ENERAL the New Social Vehicle. It deals continually with the daily real

DESCRIPTION ities of the world, but at the same time, it is able to maintain

a detachment from the world that allows it to focus upon the missional

task with a "chasteness" not available to those who sense themselves

as being utterly dependent upon the secular structures. The

Extended Order is comprised of people who are working in secular

structures because they excel in their task, or because they are

related to these structures in such a waV that they have acces to

the core of power. Therefore, they use the gifts of their circum

stances to cultivate influence for the benefit of the Movement and

the Order. They have estahlished reputations in their vocational

fields, therefore they are strategically placed to locate other

Movement colleagues in significant employment opportunities. They

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of significant structural alteration in preparation for the New Social

Vehicle. One activity of the vocational guilds will be the intensi

GUILD fication of each individual's vocational motivation. It will dev

FORMATION elop the new symbols which will provide the spiritual power for that

motivation. The Extended Order will engage in research co­ordination

directly related to the comDlexities of already established and

effective secular disciplines, calling upon expertise where it is

necessary and appropriate, ':ut able~ to differentiate ,between the need

for expertise and the need for broad, popular engagement. Furthermore,

the Extended vrder will be in the position of being able to develop

competent social leadership. Sometimes it will work at cultivating

individuals for particular tasks of great social importance. At other

times, it will simply seek to call forth, by virtue of its social

influence, the very best ca?acities of individuals who have already

demonstrated their leadership ability.

105. Strategic Impact is, above all, dependent on the influence

cultivation for the effective execution of its unique, assigned task.

D~IAI.IICAL The successful cultivation of its vocational, professional and social

RELATIONS influence is precisely what gives this group of people power in com

municating the Movemental story. Its influence is what makes it

possible not only to find strategic employment possibilities for

Movemental colleagues, but also, it is what makes it possible for it

to find those strategic positions in the first place. Moreover, any

­ ­ kind of structural tamperin,g within the established structures would

be highly suspect save that it were suggested and implemented by

people whose respect was already clearly affirmed. The cultivation

of influence for its own sa,ce, is hardly a significant missional goal.

Guild Formation and Strategic Employment are the ways in which powerful

expression is given to influence for the sake of the broader, long

range objectives. Employment and ~­uild structuring are really the

critical catalytic beginning points for significant social change.

By its position, the Extended Order dynamic is uniquely qualified to

set up their structures, and set their processes in motion.

'~lOVEIIEi'~TAL PROCE3URES

106. 1viovemental Procedures is designed to coordinate and strategically

use the resources of the Extended Order by placing them in key areas

GENERAL determined by the master strategy of the movement. Design Coordination

DESCRIPTION is the mechanism by which the Extended Order participates in the form

ation and implementation of movement consensus. Assignment System

is designed to maintain comprehensive assignment rationale. Movement

Services coordination is designed to give order to the systems of back

up activities to movement tasks.

107. The Design Coordination is responsible for the decisions and the

embodiment of these decisions. The Movement Councils are where the

DESIGN Extended Order would account, report on its research and participate

COORDINATION in the consensus process of the movement. The Corporate Research units are responsible for the research of the social structures that lays the basis for social structure permeation and re­formulation. The Symbolic Leadership within the Extended Order as that of the Serving Order also functions as a visible core of people who are a

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its secular/social wisdom and relationships to broaden the scope, extend the vision and advise the Serving Order and the '10vement. Logistical Support describes the everyday service the Extended Order provides on an immediate basis by always being available for emergency assignment and on a continuous basis by distributing materials and preserving archives.

112. Financial Empowerment is the way the Extended Order provides

enabling funds, materials and services to the Serving Order through

FI.TA`CIAL Development Visitation, In­~­ind Services and Corporate giving Units.

Ei~lPOWERIIENT The Extended Order enable financial empowerment through Development

Visitation to individuals and corporations to develop the financial

base of the Order. The Extended Order also calls upon their contacts

to provide in­kind gifts and services to empower the people with

financial resources for the ­riven task and symbolize thier missional

commitment. Corporate Units, such as cadres, also pledge and raise

money for use of the Movement and the Order.

113. Penetration Participation is the operation through which the

Extended Order share in the recruitment and COIlrSe staging? of pen

PE­~ETRA~IOLi etration courses. Recruitment Assistance provides the man?ower for

PARTICIPATION the recruitment of penetration courses through strategic contacts,

telephoning and transportation assistance. Course staglug provides

the course site location, the course set­up, the transportation of

­ pedagogues and the re­set of the building. Social Contacts provides

the strategic contacts that are needed for recruiting certain

influential persons, or for obtaining scholarships, or securing first

rate accommodations inexpensively.

114. In Logistical Support, the necessary tools, goods and services

are made available without distracting attention from the strategic

LOGISTIChL objective. Materials Distribution can encompass print shops and

SUFPJ?T mailing lists with the function of ensuring that all documents, arti

cles, models, decor and other materials are in the hands of those who

need them. Archives Preservation is the system of storage and

accessibility of date crucial to the work of the Order and the

'.`'ovement, such as family data, financial records, key models, etc.

Troop Availability refers to the ability of the Extended Order to

'plug in" on short notice to accomplish particular tasks such as

child care, decor creation, course enablement, or special mailings.

115. Enablement Mechanisms creates Movemntal Procedures by demanding

structured responses to movemental needs, it limits Movemental Pro

DYiIAMICAL cedures by the quantity and type of recources it makes available in

RELATIONS a particular place at a particular time, and it sustains Movemental

Procedures thorugh expanded resources made available to the Movement.

Enablement i~lechanism limits Strategic Impact by recalling the Extended

Order to be mission for the sake of the world, and it sustains

Strategic Impact hy increasing consciousness of corporateness. And it

creates Strategic Impact by intentionalizinsr vocational direction.

Enablerr~ent ilechanism creat~­ i the [ssigned Task by beinfr the visible

arm, tl~e actual working bodl of the Assisned l'asl<; ;t lir~its tlie

Assi<,ned Thsk by structurini, tl­~e use of s~oods, time anrl en~rS~y tower

missional purposes; it sustain thr Assisrned Task by l~r`~vidinl, money,

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Q7ERALL CONCLUSION

117. As it has been assigned by the indicative of the situation and by a corporate missional consensus, the Extended Order can be found

SOCIOLOGICAL in many different arenas. It carries the responsibility of regional,

ARE;xA movemental structures. It :, the prioring dynamic of the local

church experiment. It holds key business and industry positions for

the sake of long range permeation. It is the catalytic force in

urban organizations.

118. The Extended Order ar ears as leadership and priorship poten

tially in any movemental form and/or secular structure. It is the ones

HISTORICAL who have the vision of the future and live in response to what they

Ei'.'~RGE!CE see. ~hey are the ones who appear as nurturers of the movement and

express agape care in the T idst of requirement of insurmountable odds.

Knowing that everyone has the spirit deeps within, they operate as

corporate power, not from the front of the room but from the rear,

enabling the total group to come off as a new priorship emerges.

They are the new form of the secular cleric, the catalytic ingredient

in the march, and whatever else they do, they always appear as

recruiting for the revolution.

119. A person becomes a visible part of the Extended Order when he

declares his intention to live out of the context that all time is

SELFCONSCIGUS assigned time, and take on defined assignments. This is a decision

APPEARANCE. made with the intent of it being a lifetime decision and yet has the possibility of being redecided at any point.

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III. ­ SYMBOLIC ORDER

OVERALL INTRODUCTION

120. The Symbolic Order is the visible arm of the Historic Order,

revealing itself as the sign and symbol of service on behalf of all

SYMBOLIC civilization, past, present, and future. It dramatizes the spirit

ORDER journey of man through its forms, disciplines, and operations. The

forms are Objective Structures, Basic Constructs, and Internal Rela

tions. The disciplines are those decisional dynamics that enable

participation in the mission, while training and sustaining the en

tire Order. The disciplines include Symbolic Life, Internal Training,

and the Covenantal Frame. The Operations aspect of the Symbolic

Order deals with practical implementation of the mission by actual

izing the external missional activity, enabling corporate life and

maintaining the common context. These interrelated functions of

forms, disciplines, and operations create the framework for inten

tional representational life expenditure, where all activity is self

consciously decisional, within the rhythms of the corporate thrust.

121. The Symbolic Order is a family order composed of both multiple

and single member family units, made up of lay and clergy from all

PARTICULAR denominations and religious heritages. They are those who have made

COMPOSITION or are on the journey of making a life decision to be anchored in a

­ ­ common covenant with the Symbolic Order, obedient and accountable to

the rule of the order. Characteristic of the Symbolic Order is the

assignment of all time and space, the living in corporate structures

and the receiving of stipends relative to the missional needs of

each family unit.

122. The Symbolic Order acts primarily as servant in relation to the

Historical Order through the servant roles of edge experimenter and

intensifier. As the experimenter it invents new religious styles,

SOCIETAL trains the teachers of the Historical Order, and engages in edge

FUNCTION research. As the ~ntensifier, it ensures the effectiveness of the

Historical Order by continually reclaiming the past, guarding the

future against reductionism, and providing avenues through which the

Historical Order can intensify its mission.

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A. ;''~1L~L: ENGAGEMEN'r

123. The symbolic Ori;_e~­~ ~,pe~­te.s withir~ vat,i~,uc .­orms throuvh whic~h

it serves as the symb~o1 ~ir,d sign of the total order. In EXTERNAL

OVERALL STRUCTURES the symbolic orcier manifes~ iself in ~r.~ particular geo

DESCRIPTION social realities of Symbolic Centr~m, ~reca~,ol~: and Religious House.

In COVENENTAL RELATIONS inolviduals an. .~.~;; :1 ­~­s are engaged in the

decisional forms of Permanei~t ~Jows~ ll,~i~ r~ .,.~;.,rne<, or Preliminary

Exploration. INTEP..NpL' '­~­~I~S po r.­ '<­. rt,~ ~ingoing forms which

are used in al1 the ~­D>~ cia1 locarr^~ns a>:~ dec~s­L.onal relationships

where the symbo?ie o`~.~.~n ~p~uears; these a.re .~olity Forms, Missional

Frames, and Nurttue i.'nit.­. A~' of tr~e ,~~r~'i­. provide the structures

which discipline an Z ir le. ~ 'le Inissiona1 enga~;ement through which

the symbolic order pla~ i i r 5 "ole in the ~isople of God.

EXTERNAL STRUCTURES

124. The Symbolic Order can be expr~sed in t orrns , discipline and

operations. The forms of ~iae Sym??o] iC ord',~' can be further divided

GENERAL into external structures, ccvenental relat~ons and internal structures

DESCRIPTION The external structur~s being syn?bolic centr'~m' area node and reli

gious house; symbolic eentrl~3l? deals with deT­­t:h h~lmanness, corporate

vision, creating s~rucrures for spirit ~??~rtUre and ~lobal grounding

of mans decision. A`'ea node deals wi~h th~ tree as such through the

prigs council to plan out the new strategies and ~acctics, project

coordination for providing all the material and ~ia~a for initiation

and carrying out projects fcr the movement thrust at the Area level.

The Religious House es~ab~ is? es missior~a, stations, provides prior

­ teams for permeation, penetration and forn?u1ation of the area and for

creating care structures for corpora+e living and mlssional families.

125. The symbolic centrwm is a form of the externa' structure of the

Symbolic Order. It deals with depth h~.~mdnness and corporate vision.

SYMBOLIC It acts as a coordinaring catalyst to pr~ r.i de basic symbolic leader

CENTRUM ship. It helps in the creation of new symbols. It also plans and

enables Area prigs council. It collects, compiles and disperses the

data from all over the globe to ma: n~ain the ,ngoing research and to

channel it to the areas. rr c~o~s ~ 1! ~ thirou~­,h the Room E structure

for guiding and in t­a~r.r, ne.~ prc­`ec­s a. the area levels. Its pro

ject centrum keeps researchi.~g to ~ceep the data up to date in these

fast changing times. Lt alsc ~xperiments with projecrs like 5th City

and Local Church Experiment on a glc:ba~l basis.

126. The Area Node is an external structure and ma,or form of the

Symbolic Oder and involves a prioship coordinate, a program coordinate

and signal project coordinate, The prioship coordinate is the form

which maintains the commoress .iithir. the area and consists of the

priors council which is m:~cie up of the 36 priors of the metro houses

and the assignment coordinate, which consists of the supervision,

training and distribution of troops. The program coordinate is the

form which oversees the direction of development designs, traininF

courses, communication net and finances for the ~lobal area. The sig

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The confriars embody the wisdom and tradition as elders in the order.

The colleagues are at the shift from being the order and this is the

time of the decisional shift to be symbolized. This is the category of

those married for life to the mission and may be symbolized with common

garb such as a ring or a vestment as a token to symbolize the decision.

131. One who decides to be in the order becomes one who is on a train

ing journey. In this journey the fellow is the one who has decided to

TRAINING be in the order for longer than a year and most likely for the rest

JOURNEY of his life; as such he is the one who decisionally engages in advanced

training to enable him to shift his journey from the decision to be in

the order to the decision to be the order. The intern is prior to be

coming a fellow in that he is the Derson who has made the initial deci

sion to be a part of the order for one year and therefore decides to

submit to corporate discipline and care so that he mav get his basic

order training journey for missional servanthood. The order youth is

also one in the training journey hut slightly different in that he is

an apprentice and the decision to be in the order is made representa

tionally by parents or guardians until the time when he decides to

continue in or to leave the order.

132. A normal step in becoming a covenanted member of the order is

preliminary exploration by participating in the life of the order.

PRELIMINARY Such exploration can take the form of a short visit such as to Eccle

EXPLORATION siola or House Church. Another form is the sojourn which involves

­ resident participation in the full life of the order for lengths of

time from a few days to a fortnight. Finally, exploration, or often

participation for internship, is a period of resident participation

for perhaps a month or longer.

133. Covenental Relations create the Symbolic Order by providing the

framework for the the journey toward being the order, accountability

DYNAMIC to depth self­conscious decision to be the servant of mankind, and

RELATIONSHIPS sustain constant renewal by enabling full participation at every stage of the journey. In relation to forms, Covenental Relations brings selfconsciousness to the decision to embody those forms, demands that the forms include all phases and journey stages, and maintains the dynamic nature of the firm by occasioning repeated symbolization of the decisions of the order. The dynamical relationships of Covenental Relations to External Structures include creating of the body of troops, holding the External Forms accountable to the missional task, and guarding the sustaining effect of continuity. Covenental Relations interacts with Internal Structures by providing the comprehensive wisdom by demanding that those structures be missional, corporate, and inclu

­ sive, and by providing the context for decisional participation.

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138. The Internal Structures of the Symbolic Order create the External

Structures by establishing the frame, tools and raw material out of

DYNAMICAL which they are called forth. They create Covenantal Relations by de

RELATIONS fining the applicable categories and allowing the unwritten rule to

be a functioning force. Internal Structures limit the External Struc

~ tures by holding them accountable, defining the boundaries of their

responsibilities and providing trained personnel for leadership. They

limit the Covenantal Relations by demanding missional engagement which

precludes in~group consciousness or status ranking by requiring constant

decision to be the order by regularly restating the context and need.

The Internal Structures sustain the External Structures by pronouncing

absolution after receiving reports, giving permission to experiment

and by providing initial grist for missional visioning. They sustain

Covenantal Relations by adjusting forms and functions to the levels of

relationship, providing for renewal of vows and providinp means of in

creasing self­consciousness in the covenantal journey.

139. Forms create the Symbolic Order by making visible the structures

in which it operates, they limit the Symbolic Order bv fixing the

OVERALL structural framework of the common task and life, and, Forms sustain

DYNA"ICS the Symbolic Order by focusing the energy expenditure which cuts over

against the entropy of that energy. Forms also creat discipline by

providing the occasions for self­conscious decision; limit discipline

by objectifying engagement which keeps accountability related to the

missional thrust; and Forms sustain discipline by formalizing covenantal

relations and task delineations. Finally, Forms create operations hy

defining the areas of engagement; limits operations bv prioritizing

and functionalizing missional taks: and sustains operations by Drovid

ing continuity and coordination which finally enables chastity in the

mission.

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B. VISIBLE REPRESENTATION

140. The Symbolic Order is the visible expression of the Historical

Order, revealing itself as the sign and symbol of service on behalf

OVERALL of all civilization, past, present, and future. It dramatizes

DESCRIPTION the spirit journey of man, through its forms, disciplines, and opera

tions. The forms are Objective Structures, Basic Constructs, and

Internal Relations. The disciplines are those decisional dynamics

that enable participation in the mission, which train and sustain

the entire Order. These disciplines include Corporate Enpagement,

Interior Programming, and the Covenantal Frame. The operations

aspect of the Symbolic Order deals with practical implementation of

the mission, coordinating External Mission, enablinp Corporate Life,

and maintaining the Common Context. These interrelated functions

of forms, disciplines, and operations create the framework for

intentional, representational life expenditure, such that all

activity is self­consciously decisional, within the rhythms of

the corporate thrust.

COVENANTAL FRAME

141. Covenantal Frame is the basic context for discipline in the

Symbolic Order. It provides the basic objective understanding of

GENERAL the missional thrust and decisions required in the Corporate

DESCRIPTION Charter. The relationships and cractical focusing of enerpy are

delineated in the Common Rule, including Distributed Goods,

Assigned Time, and Structured Relations, while Customary Practices

suggests the dynamics of rehearsinF the decisions which are the key to

discipline through Liturgical Forms, Sustaining Symbols, and Life

Rites. Covenantal Frame provides the broad background of dynamics

which insure that discipline is not a legalistic fulfillment of

contractual obligations. Discipline is seen as flowing from a clear

picture of the actual situation, and the resolve one makes and dis

covers within himself. The rational ordering of corporate life out

of resolve, and the rehearsal of the decision to be the resolved one,

appear as continued acknowledgement of that which is, rather than

striving for a wishdream of what ought to be. The framework of

discipline is never the promise to live up to an ideal of perform

ance, but common joining as a people who declare what they stand

before, how they decide to live before that reality, and the ways

in which they will rehearse that decision.

142. Throughout history bodies who have declared themselves to be

historical orders have specifically delineated their mission to the

CORPORATE church and the world throuFh a CorPOrate Charter. The Corporate

CHARTER Charter gives objectivity and rational clarity to the corporately

held understaddinp of Apostolic Mission as en~agement in the

renewal of the Local Church for the sake of the world. Once the

broad operatin~ principles have heen articulated, the sDecific

action unique to its a~e appears in the Practical Vision. In the

20th Centurv the vision is the renewal of the 1,ocal Church for the

sake of the resurFence of the spirit in the entire world as catalvet

of the restructurinp of society. ~;ipnal demonstratTons are raised to

point to the possThility of local human community participatin~ in

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which holds the vision and allows one to constantly reaffirm his relationship to the mission. The Customary Practices create the Covenantal Frame by rehearsing the context out of which covenantal decisions are made. They define the actual decision required, and they continually call forth a renewal of that decision.

INTERIOR PROGRAMMING

146­ Interior Programming is that aspect of discipline that pro

vides the corporate context for reinforcement and enrichment of

GENERAL the solitary decision to intentionally expend one's life. In

DESCRIPTION the symbolic Order it is composed first of Collegial Nurture which

demands missional accountability, enacts the ecciesiola dynamics,

and embodies symbolic roles. The second dimension is Intellectual

Care, which informs the spirit journeys, insures vision expandin~,

and requires memory building. The third dimension is Religious

Formation, which demonstrates Corporate Practices, deepens

Solitary Exercises, and assures immersion in the Transparent

Journeys. Taken together, these dynamics form a montage of interior

F'uidance that provides a constant encounter with the eschatological

demand on the life of every order member.

147. Intellectual Care, which enables interior discipline, is

elicited throuFh Memory BuildinF, Journey EnablinF, and Vision

INTELLECTUAL Expanding. Corporate memory is huilt through the study of edFe

CARE writing, the rehearsal of common order wisdom, and analysis of

siFnal movement documents. Journey Enabling is the process of

allowing a person to existentially ground his own life journey

by gaininF rational clarity in intentional, sequential study, and

to motivate his own spirit bv recreating the context through which

he lives. Vision Expanding is occasioned by corporate focusing

on specific aspects of the ongoing mission, through collegiums

which inform consensus, by problem­solving units which formulate

description and plans for meeting the particular needs of the

mission, and by councils and evaluation/planning sessions which

enable local decisioning as and on behalf of the global order.

r 148. Collegial Nurture embodies the dynamics of Symbolic Roles,

~Ecclesiola Dynamics and Missional Accountability. Symbolic Roles

COLLEGIAL demonstrate Collegial Nurture by giving permission to embody

NURTURE the dynamics of the mediatinp priest who sustains and enacts

the power of rites and symbols through liturgist roles, the

witnessing rabbi who provides the necessary instruction in the

word, and the spirit Furu who unfailingly discloses the spirit

event in any corporate situation. The Ecclesiola Dynamic

crystallizes Collepial Nuruture throuF,h the celebration of all

life dynamics and covenants in the college, through the FroundinF

and appropriation of all history throuph corporate studY, and

throuFh the clarification of future enFaF~ement in the comprehensive

mission in sodality. Missional Accountability releases ColleFial

EnFaFement by objectifyinp the accomplishment of assipned tasks,

accounting for the presence of teams and units, and holdinF the

body self­conscious to its covenantal decision to be the order.

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CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT

151. Stability in the missional growth of the disciplined community

is shaped by the designing rationale for forms of Corporate En~a~e

­­GENERAL meet. Volitional Discipline is enabled by the structuring of

DESCRIPTION missional task assignments that develop leadership responsibility

and give form to the ongoing vision. The common rationale of

celebrations honors covenantal responsibilities as the movemental

dynamic within a secular culture that has grounded its celebrational

life in the historical Church. The designing of community respon

sibilities intentionalizes the corporate use of available facilities

and space, and modifies the ongoing structures for the individual

missional needs.

152. Common celebrating is the vehicle that nurtures and honors the

order's relationships by rehearsing the covenants of the global

COMMON movement, the historical church, and the secular world. The con

CELEBRATING tinuity of the global order is created through the dramatization

of the particular tasks of a missional unit, the key pivotal events,

and the gathering of an order convocation. The cruciality of the

heritage of the historical church is grounded through the reenactment

of the life of Christ as held in the seasons of the church year.

Ecclesiastical Events, such as Baptism, celebrate and symholize the

self­story of holy and sacred covenants recognized by the church. The

­ ­ celebration of Holy Days mark the steps of the spirit journey of

churchmen throughout history. External relationships of secular

covenants are particularized and honored by celebratin~ them, hy

family discontinuity, and by participation in local holidays and

global occasions.

153. Volitional Enabling develops discipline hv the way in which it

clarifies the order's stance of care as structurin~ relevant

VOLITIONAL engagement in the missional task through assignments for tactical

ENABLING engagement, the coordination of prior and leadership roles and

structures which hold the corporate vision and allow continuous

planning. Tactical Engagement is concretized in the deployment of

troops across the globe and local assignments. These include specific

track assignments as well as quarterly week one assignments. PriorshiD

roles which provide struc~u~e i resoonsib;2ity for continued enahling

of a group or individual's decision are designated in the areas of

internal life, the external mission, and geographical coordination.

The corporate vision is continually articulated by the creation of

timelines, the formulation of objectives, and the grounding of

priorities in order to intent onalize the missional task.

154. Community Designing orders the individual and corporate house

hold needs of the community so that the group may focus its time and

COMMUNITY energy on the missional thrust. This includes the intentional use of

DESIGNING' space, organizing common services and enabling individuals with

special needs. The Space T?ationale prioritizes and assi~ns the use

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by rites of passage in both symbloic and concrete forms. The Pastoral

Heritage of the Order is honored in the elders who hold the common wisdc

167. Corporate life creates, limits, and sustains External Mission

­ as follows: it creates by channeling expenditures; it limits by

DYNAMICAL concretizing immediate demands, it sustains by maintaining the troops.

RELATIONS Corporate Life creates, limits, and sustains Common Context as follows:

it creates by channeling community wisdom; it limits by particularizing

expenditure; it sustains by directing spirit energy. Corporate Life

creates, limits and sustains Symbolic Operations as follows: it

creates by providing actional arenas; it limits by consuming troops in

nitty­gritty; it sustains by turning matter into spirit.

COMMON CONTEXT

168. The Symbolic Order maintains Common Context by participating in

decision­making, assignment rotations, and visionary strategizing.

GENERAL Decision­making is the human function of every man in the Order by

DESCRIPTION consensus which enables every man to reflect and act out both his own

will and that of th total bid ~ which in turn stands before the gaze of

those chosen to be guardians of the body at large. Assignments are

rotated according to the need regarding engagement to the mission, the

nurturing construct of the situation, and priorship placement.

Visionary Strategizing holds the inclusi~e constantly before

­ ­ each Order member.

169. Participatory Decision­making which allows all to shape de

cisions while not impairing the practical missional effectiveness of

PARTICIPATORY the body, is a critical dynamic within the Symbolic Order. Consensus of

DECISION­ the whole body, whether formally taken or merely implied is the founda

MAKING tion upon which all polity rests. Those bureaucratic structures which

can execute the consensus of the body relative to a particular issue

or on an ongoing basis exist as a vehicle for actualizing that con

sensed will. In addition, a symbolic guardianship dynamic continually

broods over, defends, and interprets the consensus relative to given

situation.

170. Assignments are made out of a common context and rotated according

to missional demands. Engagement Rationale is an overall plan for

tSSIGNMENT engaging each Order member in a variety of missional assignments such

tAKING that the necessary tasks are accomplished effectively and individual

journeys are furthered. Nurturing Construct is an underlying design

of all assignments which provides care structures to sustain each person.

Priorship placement is the master assignment overlay which initiates

and carries out Movement strategies by determining the selection of

Area, Religious House, andBase Centrum priors with respect to location

and duration.

171. Visionary strategizing is the futuric planning which builds the

guidelines and creates a common context out of which the Symbolic

ISIONARY Order operates. The inclusive objectives lay out the goals which the

TRATEGIZING Order is marching toward. Current priorities discern the critical issues and arenas which are demanding urgent attention. An operational timeline delineates the sequence in which the long­range objectives will

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semination of the results of the work produced in the bodies.

Resources development "ensures the motiviation and mobiliztion

of all enabling personnel to provide monetary and in­kind donations

necessary for the external mission.

162. The operations aspect includes the relationships of External

Mission to the Common Context, the enabling Corporate Life, and the

DYNAMICAL operations themselves. The External Mission creates the Common Context

RELATIONS by establishing a sign and limits it by demanding objectivity.

The mission sustains the common context through concern. The relation

ship of the External Mission to the enabling corporate life is that it

creates it by establishing the needs and limits it by delineating the

arenas, while sustaining by giving corporate life a reason for

being. In relationship to operations, the external mission creates

by requiring concrete actions and limits by weeding out irrelevancies.

It also sustains by demandin the impossible deed. Through these

relationships external mission participate as a dynamic in symbolic

order operations.

CORPORATE LIFE

163. The operations aspect of the symbolic order dynamic performs the function of Corporate Life through administrative control, GENERAL sustaining services, and pha al care. Foundational control allows the DESCRIPTION necessary bureaucratic functioning to take place which will enable the body to function as a unit. Sustaining process provides and maintains those foundational elements~necessary for any human community to exist. Phasal care assures that every member of the community is .fully cared for within the missional framework of the order. The function of the symbolic order for practically enabling itself to exist allows all other functions to continue.

164. Foundational Control allows the necessary bureaucratic functioning to take place which will enable the body to function as a unit. SelfFOUNDATIONAL support is the fundamental operating principle of the total body of the

CONTROL Symbolic Order holding each entity as an autonomous resource.

Materials Supply insures the distribution of necessary goods to facili

tate common Symbolic Order operations. Information Records compiles

and assembles current constructs and historical data concerning Order

commonality.

165. Sustaining Processes provide and maintain those foundational

elements necessary for any human community to exist. Quarterly and week

SUSTAINING ly assignments designate whose task it is to maintain the functional

PROCESSES operation of housing systems including decor of the facilities.

Health Care is provided to ill order members by small operating units anc

health insurance provides for all. Order members are regularly assign

ed to Food Services for given blocks of time thus gaininr skill in

sustaining the spirit of the corporate p,roul) as well as its physical

well­being.

166. Phasal Care assures that every member of the community is fully

cared for within the mission, 1 framework of the Order. The emerging

PHASAL generation is equipped with the c ommon memory of the Order in its

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OVERALL CONCLUSION

174. The Symbolic Order shows up sociologically as a gathered body of people in structured units scattered throughout the world's geogPanhy. The manifest sociological forms include religious houses and outposts where small groups live and work communally and a symbolic centrum which is the seat of leadership and the coordinating headquarters recognized by all members of the body. The structured units are strategically and rationally distributed across the globe in primary and secondary cities. Within these urban areas they are intentionally housed ;n middle­class or ghetto areas, according to the kind of sign they will be required to be. As a scattered body, the Symbolic Order shows up never separated from the flow of the social process. It shows up in both secular and religious structures­­most often in edge experiments either as leaders, enablers, or unobtrusive researchers­­in areas where the social collapse of the times calls for new creativity. The Symbolic Order is unlimited in its capability to work in any area in anv discipline ? and can be found in strategic areas of the glohe en~aFed in almost any occupational arena.

SOCIOLOGICAL ARENA

HISTORICAL EMERGENCE

SELF­CONSCIOUS

APPFARAMOF

175. The Symbolic Order is called forth in the midst of the collapse of the structures that maintain the sociological forms of humanness. In this century it is called forth by the cry for a sign of possibility that emerges as innocent suffering amidst the collapse of archetypal images and relevant social mythology. The Symbolic Order appears in history as it hears the Word of God, responds to the social malaise, dares to prophesy a different situation for the future. It emerges as a body of individuals who have decided to be the chosen People of God who channel their corporate power into the missional task of the reconstruction of society through the renewal of the church. As such a body the Symbolic Order follows in the footsteps of the Symbolic Orders of the middle ages which emerged as part of mother church in the time of her weakness of the sake of healing her and enabling her to resume her crucial mission in society. The Symbolic Order manifests its response to human need by totally committing itself to operating on behalf of all, corporately consensing on the missional priorities and strategies, and assigning all its members' time always honoring its relationship to the historical church.

176. The Symbolic Order becomes visible when it decides to declare itself before God and man. Such declarations come when it does a signal project as a sign of possibility to collapsed social structures and visionless local churchmen, and when it tells publically its story in order to gain financial support for its pro~rams or to make available the tools of sociological reconstruction.

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MASTER OONCLURION ~

177. An historical order comes into being only to serve the church and the world. It formulates itself as a presence in the world­designing internal and external forms for itself, forging a discipline, and outlining its operations­­only so that it might act as a sign of the future and better serve the needs of the church and the world. Yet the religious in history have never moved hastily or impetuously to formulate their internal life. DesigninF the embodiment of the future must come from universal human insi~hts and hold what will be humanness for 1000 years.

HISTORICAL

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178. But ours is a time in the history of mankind when a sign of ordering and reconstruction is called for. New forms need to be developed by those who are willing to use themselves as experimental prototypes of what is needed for all men. It is in this light and out of this context that this document has been written. The turn toward the world requires a self­conscious formulation of the historical order as a presence in the world. This document, therefore, is a pulling together of research done over the past several years on the ordering dynamic in the 20th century, and a projection of the historical order as a response to the needs of the church and the world at this time in his :ory.

179. With the basic outline of this document, the total order will be able to research the historical order during the coming year in all of the Religious Houses and at Order Base. We will clarify and develop what the historical order in its tri­polar dynamic­­the movemental, extended and serving dynamics­­needs to look like in its form, discipline and operations.

180. This document discloses at least three arenas of research for the year ahead. The first of these is to articulate the basic human dynamics which are structurally namifest in the forms, discipline and operations in the historical order. This task includes makinc a clear definitional statement of the one reality which is the historical order and its three major aspects, movemental order, extended order, and symholic order. The second research task is to demonstrate the continuity between a 20th century historical order and those which have historically preceded it. Save that today's forms, discipline, and operations display such continuity, the essential dynamic of historical order cannot be articulated. The third research task is to discover the means of appropriating the historical order dynamic authentically in the post­modern context. This research task will clarify and direct already­existing experiments as well as provide a context for necessary relationships to future experiments, such as New Social Vehicle tactical activity.

181. Prom this first draft of the theoretical practical shape of the historical order comes the impetus and the context for the crucial research of the next year.

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OVERALL

DYNAMICS

C. PRACTICAL ACTUALIZATION

INTRODUCTION

157. The operations aspect of the Symbolic Order deals with the practical dimensions of the Order's activities, and is held by the categories of actualizing external mission, enabling corporate life, and maintaining common context. Actualizing external mission includes catalyzing thorough demonstration, training in methodology and coordinating missional networks. Corpprate life interrelates separate organizational qualities contributing to the wholeness of the Symbolic Order's life and includes enabling administrative control, the sustaining services, and phasal care. Maintaining common context includes participatory decision­making, rotational assignments and visionary strategizing. This is in contrast to the arena of discipline which deals with the symbolic life and intenal training; and in contrast to the arena of forms which deals with the structures and qualities of the Symbolic Order.

EXTERNAL MISSION

158. External Mission comprises demonstration catalysis, methodology training and network coordination. Demonstration catalysis

GENERAL is the embodiment of an exemplary style and the elicitation of move

DESCRIPTION ­mental support. Methodology training is practice in developing necessary sociological and pedagogical skills and life­spiritizing methods. Network coordination is the nerve center of external operations involving a regulatory control of missional thrusts, corporate research processes and development of resourses.

159. Demonstration Catalysis is the thrust of external mission in which the symbolic Order generates models for replication by exemplifying

DEMONSTRATION the necessary style in its own life. The priorship dynamic enables

CATALYSIS local man to realize and appropraite his own insights by showing a dept}

sensitivity in corporate care. An exemplar style is witnessed in

thosewho portray intentionality, comprehensiveness and future vision in

their stance. Movemental support is elicited when the Symbolic

Order presents a global context in which movemental colleagues can res

pond to the demands of their local situation.

160. Methodological Training is the process of equipping the order with

a conprehensive set of tools to engage in the external mission.

METHODOLOGY Pedagogical prowess in teaching and priorship is developed by partici

rRAINING pation in ongoing Week I structures and special traininF F~i 1 ~Q

='~^A~ ~ ~

~xperiential training is carried out by grounding sociological tech

niques in life situations and serious experimentation with spirit

methods such as conversations and visits, creating a new grasp after

secular piety for post­modern man.

161. Nework Coordination is the regulatory center of external opera

tions. Maintaining surveillance over outward thrust, ongoing

IETWORK research and sustaining resources. Missional control catalyzes and

'OORDINATION coordinates grass­roots penetration, secular permeation and movemental formulation. Corporate research creates and is responsible for the dis

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of all space. Rooms for symholic activities such as a worship area, common rooms used for meetings, meals, and children's structures are provided for. Solitarv space is provided for each individual or family. Common Services provide domestic commonality such as corporate meals and their enablement, health guidelines and infirmary care for children and establishment relations dealing with the Froup insurance and other secular structures. Individual Necessities order physical emergency procedures, individual disabilities and "phase" care to enable the significant engagement of all individuals.

155. Discipline is acted out in the Corporate Engagement dynamic

of the Symbolic Order. In creating celebrations, enabling assign

DYNAMICAL meets, and designing community space, Corpo?~ate Engagement gives

RELATIONS meaning to the Covenantal Frames and Interior Programming aspects

of the discipline arena. The engagement aspect illuminates the

Covenantal Frame by rehearsing the community's covenant on symbolic

occasions, by elaborating the common rule and by providing the

rationales for the customary practices of the order's formal cultic

acts. Corporate Engagement gives form to the Interior Programming

aspect by structuring intellectual care of colleagues, by ritualizing

sacred space in corporate facilities for religious exercises. In this

way Corporate Engagement focuses the discipline of the Symbolic Order

in particular forms of symbolic life, mission and space design.

156. The discipline aspect is related to the entire symbolic dimen

sion of the Historical Order, and the other two aSPects, in terms of

JVERALL creating, limiting, and maintainin~ dynamics. In relationship to the

DYNAMICS whole, discipline invents the iron man, who responds out of his own

most personal freedom in obedience to the mission. Discipline main

tains the common missional style by corporately guarding such

solitary responsibility. It intensifies the self­conscious journies

of the Symbolic Order throu~h Interior Programming. In relationship

to the aspect of form, discipline requires objectification throu~h

concrete occasioning of disciplined response. At the same time,

discipline transcends form and through its contentless exercise

overcomes sterility. Discipline insists upon missional relevance as

its context rather than any formal obedience. Finally, discipline

relates to the operations aspect by providing motivity, by requiring

functional chastity­­wherein the mission is the value, the troops are

the given and expertise is relative­­and by equipping manpower with

the prowess to endure.

149. The discipline of the Symbolic Order includes activities that

forge the authentically religious individuals necessary to our secular

RELIGIOUS age. Corporate Practices are done by missional groups as a sign of

FORMATION radical corporateness. Solitary Exercises are performed either in

­ private or in the silent proximity of colleagues doing the same

exercises. Depth plunges into the human journey of consciousness are

illuminated by sharing of the individual human struggle in a way that

reveals the common journey of all mankind. Through Corporate Practices

the order dramatizes and intensifies its participation in the universal

human experiences of poverty, chastity and obedience by particular

activities as the Fast and Feast, the Grand Ball and the Watch and

Wake. Solitary Exercises begin with immersion into the order's

foundational charting of the interior spirit dynamics of the spirit

odyssey. It is rehearsed and grounded regularly in solitary offices

and is manifested in the journal that enables the prayerful

direction of one's expenditure in history. The Transparent Journeys

are enabled by treks and visits which expose the mysterious presence

of the other world within this world; by scriptural exercises in which

the participant allows the scripture to interpret his life; and by

spirit conversations which reveal the journey of each man to he the

same as the journey of all men. These three tyr)es of Religious

Formation activities are for the sake of the unfoldin~ of authentic

human churchmen who can relate to their own mystery,identh, and

greatness as gifts to be ex~ended and who stand at the center of

being itself, constantly grounded in and revealing the face of the

mystery that is the Ground of Being for every man.

150. The dynamic relationship between Collegial Nuruture, Intellectual

Care, and Religious Formation demonstrates the solitary/corporate

!NAMICAL tension in Interior Programming. Depth intellectual care, grounded

.LATIONS in the common memory of the order, expresses the spirit journey of

each order member, and projects into an expanded vision of the future

demand as foundational to the entire montage of Interior Programming.

This dimension is deepened and enriched by Religious Formation, where

Corporate Practices, Solitary Exercises, and Transparent Journies

order and spiritize the struggle toward rationality exposed in

Intellectual Care. The spirit explosion of Religious Formation and

the rational struggle of Intellectual Care are crystallized and

missionally focussed in Collegial Nuruture, where the Ecclesiola

Dynamic welds them into a corporate missional expression while the

Symbolic Roles permit the emhracing of the demand to recreate both

the intellectual and the religious dimensions in one embodiment as

missional accountability provides the final context for the realization

of Interior Programming.

COMMON RULE

­it~ own destinal decisions. Participation in the mission is a solitary decision given corporate form by Order Vows. The vows hold the journeying of the intern engaged in being trained to the role of the serving fellow to finally being the nobody, the nothing, the friar for iife.

183. The interr`n life of the Symbolic Order is described in the Rule of the order. One aspect of the Rule deals with missional poverty. While personal possessions are retained by Symbolic Order members it is understood that any possession is available to meet the missional demand. Common economic support is symbolized by the structure of stipend allocations, based on missional need. Further economic stability is provided through participation in special funds for such things as health insurance, emerging generation education, and cultural events. Ano~her aspect of the Common Rule is that of assignment of time. Th~s can be held imaginally by "All time is assigned time." Practically this means an assignment to a missional task, an overall quarterly and yearly design, and a weekly/daily schedule. Also included in the Common Rule are the Structured Relations within which a Symbolic

Primarv in these relations is that of the is a chaste relationship shaped by the family the apostolic mission of the order. Within

Rule are the

Order member lives.

family unit. This

decision to bring off

the life of the order each member finds himself at once in a

particular task team assigned to work with people he may or may

not like and with a prior to whom he owes primary responsibility

and who like himself is assigned to the task.

144. Customary Practices delineate the normal ways in which the

significance of life is illuminated, in order to sustain the

CUSTOMARY beaac coatext for discipline. Liturgical Forms of Daily Office,

PRACTICES Canonical Hours, and the Common Meal hold the rehearsal of the

Word as the final ground for any decision, while Sustaining Symbols

symbolic rituals, order icons, and common garb recall the

particular thrust of the Symbolic Order, and Life Rites of birth,

anniversaries, and order affiliation celebrate the significance of

individual, familial and corporate journies. The practices prevent

the discipline of the Crder from becoming separated from the

unsecured significance of life as it is given and the missional

expenditure that is the bedrock rationale for the discipline.

145. The Corporate Charter creates the Covenantal Frame by pro

viding the context of comprehensive mission, and the particular

DYNAMIC vision out of which covenantal decisions are made. It limits the

RELATIONS Covenantal Frame by defining one mission and one task; and it

sustains the Covenantal Frame by providing a framework for con

tidual redecision. The Comrn`~n Rule estahlishes the framework

which holds one self­conscio sly before the mission to which he

is covenanted. It defines t?,e Covenantal Framework through the

intentional distribution of 5~00ds, assignment. of t$me and

structuring of relations. tt maintatus the daily framework

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INTERNAL STRUCTURES

NURTURE

UNITS

134. The Internal Structures of the symbolic order are maintained in

Polity Forms, Missional Frames and Nurture Units. Each of the forms

GENERAL is intended to operate comprehensively. These forms are arranged from

DESCRIPTION smaller selective units to larger bodies of people which deal with the

particular and practical arenas of study, research and consensus­making.

135. Polity Forms within the Symbolic Order allow every member to

participate creatively in the making of decisions which shape the

POLITY direction and movement of the Symbolic Order. Order Council, including

FORMS the entire membership of the order, serves as the sounding board or

town­meeting dynamic where consensus on broad missional engagement is

reached. The Representational Presbytery, made up of cross­sectional

representation from the established groupings of the order, is sub

divided into the Consistory ~^~hich serves as the guardian of the sym

bolic life, the Senate which oversees the study life and the Session

which directs the life of the stations. The Symbolic Panchayat, whose

membership embody the wisdom and memory of the order, states the con

sensus and builds the contexts out of which the order makes its deci

sions. The Panchayat makes representational decisions on behalf of

the entire order in crucial situations where time precludes the parti

cipation of the entire order.

136. Missional Frames are the internal structures which enable the

order's engagement in its task. They are supporting and delineating

MISSIONAL forms relative to its mission. They embody the dynamics of research

FRAMES and training and direct the doing or action of the order. The Pedagogy

Tutorial trains order members in the teaching mission and style. The

Research Choir carries out the exploration and probing of new areas

preliminary to the experimental work of the order. The Working Collegiu

studies and workshops edge areas relative to the order's mission,

sharpening its mission and refocusing what it knows to reinforce or

redirect its missional brooding.

137. Nurture Units within the Internal Structures of the Symbolic

Order provide the necessary care for missional engagement. Unlike

Polity Forms and Missional Frames which order and involve troops in

direct mission, the Nurture Units are composed of the Primal Team,

Spiritizing Ecclesiola, and Enabling Congregation all of which give

form to the multiple care dynamic of the Symbolic Order. The Sustain

ing Congregation functions to rehearse the inclusive vision and spon

sors the practical accomplishment of the total task, giving missional

thrust to both Ecclesiolas and Teams. The Ecclesiola grounds intell

ectual care, planning and study for members of the Congregation. Like

wise, the Team provides members with missional direction as well as

volitional and physical care.

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nal project coordinate directs and coordinates all special projects

such as local church galaxies and 5th City'demonstrations for the

entire area. All of the forms of the Area Nc`]e direct futuric plan

ning necessary for global expansion.

127. The Religious House is the presence of the s'~r~`lic order in a

particularized location such as a met~o. The prioship team is the first

RELIGIOUS and second prior families, ac signed by the s'~mtol~c crder, who are res

HOUSE r~onsible for the internal life of the Religlous House and for the act

ualization of missional pr~o~ if ies wit~in ~n ass­gn~a ~eographical

area. Members of the Religious House are ass.~gn~i~ to missional sta

tions. geographically or runctionally oriente`~ such as a penetration

station or a polls station which allows effective engagement in the

external mission. The internal life of the Religious House forms a

care matrix which provides total care for ea~h member and is an ob

servable demonstration of corporate missional li~e style. The symbolic

order disperses its presence globally through a network of Religious

Houses.

128. External Structures create covenantal relationships by calling

forth serious troops to commit themselves to the mission in a struc

DYNAMICAL tured form. The',r limit covenental relations by ~emanding of individuals

RELATIONS a particularized geographical participation. Finally, these structures

sustain covenantal relations by enabling all to form formalized self

conscious relationships. External structures create internal struc

­ tures by calling forth found~tional care forms in order to sustain

the external missiQr. They limit in~ernal str­uctures by demanding

global commoness. They sustain inte,mal structures by enabling fu

turic global visioning. Externa] structures creates itself by demand

ing global linkage. It limits itself by operating out of grassroots

consensus. Finally, it sustains itself by guarding local autonomy.

~OVENENTAL RELATIONS

129. The form of tire order includes the frame that takes into account

the stages of the journey decision as well as common memory and corpor

~ENERAL ate wisdom. Covenental relations can be divided into three categories.

DESCRIPTION The first of these is PERMANENT VOWS, the friars, the confriars, and

colleagues. These individuals have made a life­long decision about

PERMANENT

VOWS

being the order. The second category is that of TRAINING JOURNEY, which includes the fellow' t'le intern' and order youth. This category includes individuals who are ready for initial and advanced training journeys. The last categor`,r is that of PP~ELIMINARY EXPLORATION. This category includes the mork for a month' sojou~ner, and the visitor who are considering a year's internship and have come to explore that possibility.

130. Under covenent.­~, relations the rirst arena is the permanent vows, or those who are wed for life to the mission, these are the friars, the confreres' and col'eagues. The friars are the symbolic and spiritual examples an~ ein~ody tne wisdom of the ages in the midst of the order.

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in­kind services, recruitment for courses, and manpower for local church projects.

116. The operations of the ..xtended Order create the forms by demanding a structural response. The operations limit the forms by calling into question the~ function of the forms already in being. The operations sustain the forms bv providing activities with missional intentional thrusts. The ooerations of the Extended ()rder create the discipline by demanding the provision of trained troops. The operations limits the discipline by calling into question its relevance hummanness and comprehensiveness. The operations sustains the discipline by engaging the troops in relevant mission to society. The operations of the Extended ,rder create the Extended Order by providing relevant activities which ar? the foundations on which it is built. The operations limit the total Extended Order by desigTnating the particular role of the Exten`­led Order. The operations sustain the total rxtended Order by providing relevant activites which give continuous mobilization to the troops.

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sign to­the Extended Order in discerning the task of the Extended

Order. The Design Coordination of the Extended Order holds the

Movement over­against the current structures and are responsible to

the Movement for the partic pation of those structures in the recon

struction of society. ~

108. Assignment Systems intends to assure comprhensive participation

of Extended Order members in all dimensions of the Movement structures

ASSIGNMEIiT through local church assignments, Signal Participation in local

SYSTEMS movement structures and Movement Faculty assignments. Church Responsi

bility is designed to place E'xtended Order men~ers in strategic

positions within local churches by assignment to cadres, galaxy

involvement, and pastorale positions. Signal Participation is designed

to coordinate the intentional experditure of Extended Order members

through comprehensive assignnments to local aspects of movement life,

such as recruitment. I~iovemen al Faculty is designed to employ the

Extended Order in pedagogical participation bv leadin: corporate

workshops, teaching courses and holding consults.

109. Movement Services is the means through which the Extended Order

~ provides the Movement with the local enablement functions that sustain

MOVEMENT the total mission. The Movement needs local iron men who will put

SERVICES up with whatever task is needed to unblock cadre formation' local

church renewal and movement expansion. Metro Communication Networks

is the way the Extended Order forms the crucial links to keep the

grassroot movement informed of issues crucial for the life of the Order,

the state of the Church, and the state of the hTorld. Administration

Machinery is the means throu~h which the Extended Order enable courses,

as well as offices, files, and records for the sake of course follow

up and cadre development. r'`esources Management is how the Extended

Order cares for the movemental financial records and meeting facilities.

110. Movement Procedures creates the Strategic Impact by priorit

izing secular target areas. It limits it by establishing defined

DYNAMICAL strategic goals. It sustains it by giving missional form and focus

REI.ATIOIiS to daily activity through providing comprehensive models. riovement

Procedures creates Enablement MechanisTns by defining and evaluating

and redefining the needs of the Movement. It sustains it by assigning

the necessary manpower to malutain this dynamic in operation. Move

ment Procedures creates Extended Order operations by giving form to

the thrust of the Movement. It limits the Extended Order operations

by giving form to the thrust of the Movement. It limits the Extended

Order operations by providin>, concrete strategy and goals. It sustains

it by providing the missiional context from which the Extended Order

exists.

ENABLEI`IENT MECHANISMS

111. E:nahlement Mechanisms descri!,es the action of the Fx.tended

Order ar. it enables the Mov'`'nent eithe~r as a whole or in a ',eograph

,ENERAL ical locale in the arenas oF finance, penetration and lol!,i<:tical

JESCRIPTION support. F'inancial Emoowerrn`>nt provides the basic support system

whic}~ makes available continZlous funds, goods and services. Pen

etration Participation is the way in which the Extended Order uses

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are in a position to make their voices heard in secular councils

and circles, and thus they are in a position to make suggestions for

organization and structural innovation. Also, they are the ones best

placed to form vocational guilds which will catalyze and evolve into

the structures of the New Social Vehicle. ~

102. There are two ways in which the strategic secular impact is felt

within the economic, political and cultural structures: First of all,

INFLUENCE the Extended Order is out t¢ lay the foundations for the future

CULTIVATION structures of the New Social Vehicle. But next, and secondarily, it

is out to enable and heighten the effectiveness of the Movement and

the Historical Order. At the same time, it is out to implement the

strategies and tactics by which the economic community will be made

more human, more conducive to the creative expression of human life

Political strategizing by the Order operates, first of all, to

assess the relationships and resources to enable the order mission.

Out of that assessment it takes responsibility for cultivating and

nurturing those dimensions of the political establishment to which

it has access. In this way, it directs its activity toward the

ideological goal of allowing "all the people" the possibility of

participation in "all the decisions." The Extended Order also

bears the burden of being the public relations liaison between the

Historical Order and the secular community. It uses all available

secular media, first, to proDagate the movemental ideological pos

­ ­ ition, and, at the same time, to begin practical field research

in massive public re­education.

103. The Extended Order is then, in the unique position of being

able to serve as the clearinghouse which brings together the move

STRATEGIC mental employment and labor pool with the employment possibilites

EMPLOYMENT available in the secular world. At the same time, in order to be

able to continue to do this over a sustained period of time, it is

necessary that it serve as the guardian of professional and occup

ational excellence among movemental personnel. As part of that

concern for excellence, it will also be uniquely responsible for the

development of permeation training schools. Through this training

process, it refines the methods and performs the necessary background

which will make it possible to take the movemental dynamic into

secular structures. The Extended Order alao provides assignment

enablement. It assists in the necessary background work of preparing

dossiers, maintaining files of available personnel, preparing

references and maintaining other forms of records and files of

information. The Extended Order comprehends the significance of

rotating employment, so that no individual is ever locked into one

narrow, stultifying position tar ionger than is missionally necessary.

It works out the necessary procedures and maneuvers by which it

becomes possible for individuals to shift employment, either from

one field to another, or, within the same field, from one geographi

cal location to another.

104. Guild formation, as distinct from strategic employment and

influences cultivation, is primarily concerned with development

of the catalyzing guilds which will eventually ~rovide the backbone

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Budget is the corporate plan for missional use of funds, space and

goods. Time Allocation is nlanning time expenditure for strategic

RESOURCE corporate obJectives. Strategic Occupation is the selection and

DESIGN maintenance of a vocational station for particular missional object

ivea. Negotiated Budgets, Time Allocation and Strategic Occupation

are the arenas of expenditure structured into the Extended Order

relationship.

93. Commissioned Style creates external behavioral patterns which

express the interior deciaion to be the Extended Order. It limits

DYNAMICAL legalistic tendencies of discipline by providing f r absolution and

RELATIONS by pointing constantly to the context of mission which requires a

disciplined life. It sustains discipline by providing commonality

in patterns and thus a collegiality among order members. Commiss

ioned Style formation catalyzes the Consensed Symbolics by requir

ing frequent and dramatic rehearsals of the context in which one

lives. It further requires that the symbolic life in fact relates

to the realities of a mission ~1 life. It sustains the symbolic

life by maintaining consciousness of the ultimate decisions required

of a person. It creates Coordinated Training by producing persons

with time and energy for radical engagement in the order task. It

limits that training by demanding effectiveness in the expenditure

of energy. Finally, it sustaina training by providing the motiva

tion for continued participation. Without serious attention to style

formation the decision to be the order is soon either dissipated

into a frenzy of shallow activism or rationalized into a realm of

hollow abstraction.

COORDINATED TRAINING

94. Coordinated Training assures the development of skills and

knowledge, grounded in a broad base of order memory and 20th century

:ENERAL secular and theological wisdom. It is coordinated in the sense that

DESCRIPTION the experience and wisdom of the order ensures its comprehensiveness.

An assignment system provides a way of matching curriculum to the

needs of the order member and the task demands, a training scheme

conveys formal and informal wisdom and signal demonstration provides

the several arenas for practical "on the job" study.

95. The Extended Crder would be open to a regular Assignment System

which would enable its training. It would be assigned to pedagogy

~SSIGNMENT tutorials. It would play a key leadership role in P.S.U. groups.

,YSTEM ­ It would also further its training through participation in tracking

formats. These would provide it with adequate skills.

96. Training Schema is an assigned study schedule to expose the

extended order members to the Comprehensive curriculum, current Edge

RAINING Stutics and Order Wisdom. The Comprehensive Curriculum include& the

CHEMA entire Academy curriculum. The Edge Study corresponds to ongoing

edge study of the Symbolic Order such as current books, lectures and documents. The Order Wisdom includes documents, books, constructs and methods which have become part of the oral tradition. Study in these areas would prepare the extended order members to carticipate in e~der functions and to better perform his particular assignment iT. society.

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B. FORGED COMMONALITY

83. The Discipline of the Extended Order is that which allows for

the commonality of the Extended Order by outlining common symbolic

OVERALL life which rehearses the story of the Historical Order, by forging

DESCRIPTION the new style of this dynamic of the order which would order the re

sources and covenantal relations and by setting forth the structures

which will train the Extended Order for the missional task. This

discipline would succeed in outlining an authentic response to the

decision to be part of the ordering dynamic in history.

CONSENSED SYMBOLICS

84. The Extended Order rehearses its missional vision regularly

through the Consensed Symbolic Life which includes the liturgical

GENERAL forms of worship and rituals born out of the historical order's

DESCRIPTION extensive extensive experimentation and its common understanding of

its task. Spiritual exercises provide the tools for depth reflection

on life and life decisions. Common symbols hold one present to the

mission in its comprehensive context.

85. Liturgical forms are primary and secondary rehearsals of life

as it is understood by the Historical Order. Foundational Liturgists

LITURGICAL are the critical and regular dramaturgical offices that are the

FORMS core of the symbolic life­­daily office and House Church. Life

Celebrations expose the significance of common human events

and transitions­­birth, marriages, death and phasal transitions.

Secondary rituals are reminders and contextualizers that are utilized

at any time­­meals, wake up, beginning and concluding formal and in

formal meetings, and daily sendouts. The Liturgical Forms are regular

and consistent across the entire Historical Order.

86. Spiritual Exercises are the methods of enabling and expressing

self­consciousness about the events and states of the spirit life.

SPIRITUAL Conversations (usually over a meal) are the covenanted family's

EXERCISES corporate reflection on past events and the revelations they have

been on the depths of life. The solitary office is every spirit in

dividual's rehearsal of the depths of humanness in light of the day's

occurences. Such corporate exercises as watches, fasts, and grand

balls, also odysseys, hold the extended order over against the mystery

in life and the experience of that mystery by their colleagues. The

extended order participates in these spiritual exercises as disci

pline in the spirit life as well as necessary nurture.

87. Common symbols act as a reminder of the way life is and point to

the primal covenant. Appropriate decor tells an addressing story in

COMMON an enabling manner using statues, montages, paintings, etc., and are

SYMBOLS chosen according to the particular setting­­office, living room, family

room, etc. Personal signs include the use of clothing and jewelry

to create a sign for the future and act as secondary symbols. Worheip

centers include such things as altars for family or individual and

are set aside in the home or office where the mystery which is in the

midst of life is remembered and encountered again.

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79. Community Forums are local cross­vocational meetings providing

opportunity for the extended order to be involved with the community

COMMUNITY in problem solving endeavors. One aspect of community forum is the

FORUMS Communication Station which is the parish level group that publicizes

and disseminates information about community decisions and concerns,

and evokes public participation. Another aspect of the forum is the

Impelmentation Station which actualizes community decisions. The

third aspect of the forum is the Consultation Station that serves

as an advisor to individuals and groups regarding participation in

local concerns and activities. Thus, the Extended Order is involved

in the whole arena of public service and problem solving.

80. Cultivation Forces are extended order teams that impact the

establishment and dis­establishment structures enabling specific

CULTIVATION movemental goals. One arena of the force is the Civil Post which is

FORCE the occupational location of Extended Order poeple dispersed and as

signed to particular secular jobs. Ecclesiastical Post is another

arena of the force which is the position to which an extended order

member is assigned by the order and appointed by the traditional church

hierarchy. The third arena of the force is the Movemental Post

which is a responsiblity task to which extended order people are as

­ signed to call forth the movemental forces, the establishment, and the

dis­establishment to more fully participate in the ongoing civilizing

force in the building of the human earth.

81. The Permeation Guilds in relation to the Demonstration Auxiliary

provides professional expertise, demands replicability, and elicits

DYNAMICAL broad base support. The Permeation Guilds in relation to the Extended

RELATIONS Chapter provides the credentials for the task, requires comprehensive

engagement in social structures, and maintains contacts with all

levels of the social arena. The Permeation Guild in relation to the

Extended Order Forms illuminates the social relevance of the forms,

demands practical application, and maintains structures which provide

basic social data.

82. Forms create the Extended Order by providing local operating

units. Forms limit the Extended Order by holding it to its unique

OVERALL mission or assignment. Forms sustain the Extended Order through

DYNAMICS being self­sustaining structures for the troops. Forms create Discipline

by providing self­conscious direction. Forms limit Discipline by

holding it accountable for the mission. Forms sustain Discipline by

holding to the vision of what is possible in the future. Forms

­­ create Operations through demanding a goal. Forms limit Operations

by keeping a sharp focus on the activities. And Forms sustain

Operations through contexting.

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­DYNAMICAL RELATIONS

58. Secular Evangelism creates Movement Building through common short courses. It limits Movement Building by maintaining the trans­establishment style and it sustains Movement Building by establishing the servanthood image; it creates Strategic Permeation through contextual cur riculum, & limits Strategic Permeation through the tiscernmel~t of role demands and finally, formulates corporateness thereby sustaining Strategic Permeation; it creates Consensed Mission by signalling the deeps and limits it through maintaining a corporate thrust, and lastly Secular Evangelism sustains the Consensed Mission of the Movemental Order by the development and use of spirit tools.

CONCLUSION

59. The Consensed Mission of the Movemental Order creates Localized

Covenant by providing the necessary task for missional engagement;

OVERALL it limits Localized Covenant by specifying the types of activlties

DYNAMICS appropriate to the task; and it sustains Localized Covenant by focusing

the missional task. The Consensed Mission also creates Disciplined

Collegiality by providing the reason for discipline; it limits Disci

plined Collegiality by questioning its relevancy; and it sustains

Disciplined Collegiality by supplying it with a rationale for continu

ously providing discipline for all the troops. Lastly, Consensed Mission

creates the Movemental Order by providin g concrete missional focus;

it limits the Movemental Order by concretely demanding prioritized en

gagement; and it sustains the Movemental Order by constantly authenti

cating its missio.l.

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PERMEATION GUILD

DYNAMICAL RELATIONS

52. Permeation Guild is one of the operations of the Movemental Order. Within the strategic permeation of society, order members operate Permeation Guilds to implement research, to conduct model building sessions, and to provide a means of close evaluation of the task. Within the global research net Permeation Guilds would be given particular assignments appropriate to their wisdom, task and location. The carrying out of such assignments is not only direct participation in recreating grassroots polity but creating the comprehensive context and pioneering mode of order members and compilation of necessary data to insure universallty and practicality. Regular model building is the process by which guilds lay out the specific tactics to be employed in their occupational or task area to create the New Social Vehicle. Some guilds will do detailed planning Gimilar to tertiary actualization in the Local Cougregation Experiment whereas others (e.g. denominational bureaucrats) may do corporate broad planning once or twice a year. Objective and corporate means of evaluating the effectiveness of individual ana guild models in relation to ~trategic permeation provides opportunity for redirection.

53. To talk about the dynamical relationships of Strategic Permeation, Movement Building, and Secular Evangeliam is difficult because you cannot point to groups of people or structures but must relate activities to activities. Strategic Permeation creates Movement Building by continually providing new contacts; it creates Secular Evangelism by providing situations or opportunities for dramatization of meaning or new relationships; and it creates the Consensed Mission of the Movemental Order by providing immediate access to the social structures which are to be changed. Strategic Permeation limits Movement Building by demanding that movemental structures be relevant to the sociological realities; Strategic Permeation limits the Consensed Mission of the Movemental Order by demanding rootedness, that is, by requiring tbat it be engaged concretely in the renewal of social structures; and Strateglc Permeatioln limits Secular Evangelism by discerning the depth human struggle and requiring a relevant word of possibility be addressed. Strategic Permeation sustains Movement Bullding by prioritizing impact arenas relative to new courses for increasing numbers; Strategic PermeatioD sustains Secular Evangelism by grounding self­conscious secular mythology; ana strategic permeation sustains the Consenset Mission by maintaining relationship webs through the interrelatedness of operation"1 activities and missional tasks.

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46. The Back­up Net embraces management representation which is the

operation of common internal finances, the maintenance of legal rela

BACK­UP tionships and formal representation of the Order with the established

NET civil structures of society. It includes an administrative frame

work which plans celebrations, decides and implements course schedules

assumes responsibility for public relations and makes assignments to

facilitate the area's internal life. Through a development net the

Movemental Order articulates the focus of current global engagement

discerns avenues for financial support and maintains the continuity

and nurture of those resources.

47. The Movemental Order engages in Global Spirit Movement develop

ment through participation in movemental structures, local churches

STRUCTURAL and signal demonstrations. The leadership dynamic operates within

LKADERSHIP these structures as the Movemental Order members corporately build

models and time lines, enable consensus formation, and lead meetings

at the various geo­coordinate levels. They provide direction in the

construction and implementation of tactics to actualize the movemental

strategies of the historical church in its local form. Demonstration

events and projects provide another practical arena for the Movemental

der's structural action. Crucial movemental development occurs in

relation to the Movemental Order's necessarily obvious and behind­the

scenes guidance and direction.

48. The dynamics of Movement Building, within the Movemental Order,

is in relationship to the dynamics of Strategic Permeation, Secular

DYNAMICAL Evangelism, and Consensed Mission operations. It creates Strategic

RELATIONS Permeation by inspiring involvement, limits it by its specific type

of participation, and sustains it by its common style. Movement

Building plays a role in effective Secular Evangelism by virtue of it

sensitivity to the spirit malaise. It limits Secular Evangelism in

its concern with helpful establishment relationships and it sustains

Secular Evangelism by continuously articulating the research edge.

In its relation to Consensed Mission, Movement Building is creative

in illuminating the need. It limits Consensed Mission by demanding

that it live out of a long term vision and it sustains Consensed

Mission by providing the forces for the task.

are those objects such as NPM charts, other world pictures, the transestablishment wedge, and the iron cross, used by Movemental Qrder members to visibly hold themse~ves before their covenant to be the Order. Particular rituals point to those ritualized activities sucn as ear rituals, per~e~­­~ 011 a.s .;gi~m~n~sr and quarterly submitted course availability schedul`­` that are ~vmbels of an active covenant with the Order. Vocational ~ tnry :I.~S tr lo with the putting to form of one's public and private articuiation of his decision to stand before Gbd in allegiance to an assigned area, doing the mundane and being the mission as a sign of what it means to be the transestablishment within the structures of society.

31. Common SYmbO1B creates Corporate Assignnent by providing a

comprehensive visionary context for engagement; it limits Corporate

DYbAwI TAT, Asaignment by dictating the rationale for what is necessary; it

2L! ~l~lNS sustains Corporate Assignment by continually rehearsing the group's

task in history. Common Symbols creates ~xpenditure Designs by

placing the demand for prioritizing and structuring human expenditure;

it knits Expenditure Design by focusing the arena of time and

resources expenditure; it sustains the Expenditure Design by providing

a serious nonchalant relationship to expenditure. Common Symbols

creates Hovemental Order Disciplined Collegiality by holdin~ the

corporate group before the task; i* limits Disciplined Collegiality

­ by deli~eating the arena of engagei,~ent; it susta ns Disciplined

r'olle,~s3ii~y ty con~inually r h~ar~ine the group's reason for being.

CORPORATE ASSIGNMENT

32. The preparation and en~ageFen o, the Movemental Order requires

participation in C~'orate A.`is.2r.ment to the covenant group, the

&ENERAL train~ng desig~' as~d the quarterly ass~+nt rationale necessary for

DE~OR PTION the mission. Study and tra ning i~ t.>torial sessions, implementation

of NSV tactics through voca~.;;~aJ V­3;~d structures or participation

in a Nei igious ifo,Jse Odysse<: i ci e~.,ple~ or Corporate Assignment

thr.~i~g' which the di%c­~plir;~ cove>,ental relationships within the

Movemental Order are intens:fied.

33 ~ Covenant ~:iroup assignm~nt 1s tr~ rmiQo~ng groups such as

movemen~al units, vocational guild~ and a local church; in order to

COV1:NANT demonstra~e and prepare Move'­ntal 3rdre,r pe~sons for common missional

GR;)'~'F thrust,assignmen~ to movemental unitq fri,g, ~ care modules) oro~ides

training and experience irl the nurturing process of the Order,

such as, synbolic life and movement accountability. Vocational guild

assignmenta are aimed at impacting the specific social arenas of the

Mcvemental Order person's vocational thrust. Assignment to local

church structur¢s serves as prime opportunities to develop and

demonstrate the style of the renewed churchman.

34. Training Design refers to training assignments and events,

both formal and informal, such as pedagogy tutorials, study sessions

TRAINING and leadership training roles. Pedagogy tutorial assignments include

DESIGN regional pedagogy structures, or collegium sessions in a Religious

House where pedagogical training is given. Advanced study is an

assi~nment to advanced courses. Academv a~ "d~. .Ctil~V Q~Q­~^nQ ;­ ^~­