What is a missional community
Aug 11
I found a great article that brings together the different voices on the missional front. Jesus told us to go into all the world and be his ambassadors, but many churches today have inadvertently changed the “go and be” command to a “come and see” appeal. We have grown attached to buildings, programs, staff and a wide variety of goods and services designed to attract and...
Loving your Neighbors
Apr 30
Tim Keller identifies the following characteristics of a missional church.¹ I’ve found them very helpful in encouraging groups to recognize what it means to engage with their neighborhoods in a missional way. A ‘missional’ small group is not necessarily one which is doing some kind of specific ‘evangelism’ program (though that is to be recommended). Rather: 1. If its members...
Going every place
Sep 29
A true measure of living life between Sundays is how one handles missional living and evangelism. Here is a great article discussing that theme. Evangelism in Every “Place” « Provocations & Pantings.
Nothing is Awesome
Jun 18
So often we take a word in our vocabulary and shrink it and misuse it until that word no longer has meaning. “Awesome” is one of those words. It is used for everything. “Lunch was awesome”, that show was awesome”, “my shoes are awesome”. Awesome means to inspire awe. How do shoes inspire awe? Now that everything can be awesome then nothing really is. It...