PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS.
Chapter 2: ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS.
Environmental analysis will help you understand a specific environment. To analyze something means to study it in detail, examining each part that makes up the whole. Environmental analysis means to study each part of the environment, including physical, social, cultural and spiritual factors. Types of environmental analysis are personal analysis, analyzing a People group, analyzing an area, analyzing a region, analyzing a nation and analyzing an existing Christian organization. The importance of environmental analysis are that it helps believers discover their place in ministry, affects every person, relates the gospel to the environment, relates to God’s dealing with man, enables use of the environment to teach the gospel, identifies fertile spiritual grounds and identifies factors which affect your mission. The perils to avoid are: do not analyze with natural reasoning only, do not be overwhelmed by the task, do not be influenced by negative reports, do not be fearful and unbelieving, do not gather facts just for facts sake and do not focus on “If” but rather on “How”.