Becoming N.I.R. Sighted: Part Two
July 01, 2010
By Dr. Darrell Horn
There are at least three basic principles of any good strategy plan. We will avoid many pitfalls of mission and ministry work when we are guided by the N.I.R. principles. In order to develop a highly affective mission and ministry strategy plan, we must be N.I.R. (near) sighted, so to speak. In other words, we need to filter all goals, activities, and action plans through the N.I.R. Principles.
The second letter of the N.I.R. principles is "I", which stands for indigenous.
The word indigenous, in a general sense, means "native" or "originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country." When referring to ministry and missions, indigenous pertains to what is native to or is characteristic of a people group or population segment. Every people group or population segment has peculiar and distinguishable characteristics that make it recognizable from other people groups or population segments.
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