Theme 01 · Apostolic Genius · mDNA
The Forgotten Ways
Reactivating the missional DNA already in your people
Recover the six elements the risen Christ coded into his church — and name what has been suppressing them in your context.
By the end you will
The full course walked with a trained facilitator and a small group on a shared weekly rhythm, by application.
How the weeks work
Four necessities, every week
Every week runs the same loop. In cohort mode the fourth necessity is live: a facilitated gathering where what you tried gets named out loud, including what failed.
Dissonance
The week opens with a teaching and a question that is deliberately not resolved for you.
Reflection
A private guided conversation that holds the tension and surfaces what you actually believe.
Practice
One embodied step, small enough to happen this week, specific enough to be asked about.
Community
A live gathering with your facilitator and group, plus a board that stays open between weeks.
The arc
8 weeks, one movement
The church in the West is not failing for lack of resources. It is failing because it has forgotten what it already carries.
What you get
Everything in the course
- ·8 opening teachings from Alan, with full transcripts
- ·Three guided AI conversations each week — dissonance, practice, reflection
- ·All readings, scripture and case studies drawn from The Forgotten Ways (2006, rev. 2016)
- ·A weekly live gathering with a trained facilitator
- ·A private journal that stays yours
- ·Certificate of completion
Where it comes from
The Forgotten Ways (2006, rev. 2016)
Every reading, case and prompt in this course is drawn from the published corpus. Nothing here is invented for the format — the course is the book taught the way it was meant to be learned: in practice, with others.
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