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# Appendix A: The Minimum Operating Set

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The book offers a field architecture, and every local use remains revisable. A local plant must still create, review, and use the artifacts appropriate to its tradition and jurisdiction. Combine documents when that improves use. Do not omit a function because it lacks a separate file.

- Domain | Required operating set | Ready?
- Received life | received-life rule; confession and disputed-judgment map; annual rule of life; source and claim rule | ________
- Calling and sending | discernment finding; assessment and development; household agreement; sending covenant; care map; stop conditions | ________
- Place and context | listening log; people-place-power map; existing-church map; contextualization table; external review | ________
- Team and belonging | function map; owner-backup-reviewer; qualification; formation covenant; belonging and catechesis path; role-access matrix | ________
- Polity and leadership | governing document; authority and appeal map; reserved decisions; delegations; role charters; informal-power review; succession | ________
- Money and property | scenarios; budget and forecast; controls; conflicts; donor and benevolence rules; accounts; assets; debt; property due diligence; independent review | ________
- Civil reality | legal and regulatory map; adviser and license register; insurance; employment status; privacy; contracts; continuity | ________
- Protection | screening; interaction code; monitoring; site and online rules; first-response card; local report map; leader bypass; training; records; quality assurance | ________
- Complaints and repair | intake lanes; visible contacts; anti-retaliation; investigation and appeal; discipline; interim limits; repair and public communication | ________
- Worship and sacraments | worship theology; seasonal and weekly plans; teaching rule; baptism and Table practice; prayer, song, gifts, deliverance, access, and hospitality controls | ________
- Formation and care | catechetical spine; group charter; household and youth plan; care lanes; crisis and self-harm card; referral network; pastoral records | ________
- Mission and public life | gospel and follow-up path; mercy charter; neighbor and church partnerships; public-speech rule; political-capture audit; global covenant | ________
- Operations and review | calendar; meetings; decision and action logs; record schedule; promise register; metrics; incident plan; gate decisions; closure plan | ________

Marking a row ready means a named body reviewed the actual document and tested the actual path. A downloaded policy with blanks is not ready.