Tag: missional
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[Missional Monday 6] Missional requires focus
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Today we explore how making the missional shift requires a great deal of focus. As a brief reminder, a simple way to get a better of a handle on the concept of missional is to replace it with “missionary.” I’m sure there were good reasons for choosing missional over missionary, probably related to some of the cultural baggage associated with missionary, but the two words are both derived from the root word “mission” and essentially mean the same thing. At it’s heart being missional is about placing God’s mission at the center of the life of the individual and the center of the church’s existence, where it was surely meant to be all along.
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Why bother with Easter?
I have one reason alone: by myself, and in myself, I am not strong enough to ensure that the kingdom vision of the gospel remains the most formative truth in my life. I’m dead serious about this–I can’t do it. I need help and that help must come not simply from friends but from Christian sisters and brothers, and it must come from them in the context of a worshipping community who have chosen to intentionally order their (our) lives around the story of God.
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Four ways churches manage the tension of gospel and culture
Evangelicals are learning to face some new realities about the gospel’s encounter with contemporary culture. The church exists for the purpose of proclaiming the truth of the Christian gospel–that reconciliation with God is possible through Christ. As God’s missional community, we are to embody that truth we pursue the various callings God has given to us (father, mother, husband, wife, etc). We are also to verbally communicate that message as God gives us opportunity to do so through organic, authentic, respectful conversation. As a result we live with a tension in deciding which parts of our message and faith are culturally-conditioned.
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[Missional Monday 5] Missional is urgent and lean
Christians (and churches) make the missional shift when they come to realize that not only is the mission of God their mission, but that the ways in which we’ve pursued that mission in the past are no longer effective.
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Five great books on discipleship
I’ve made a list of five books on discipleship that we written in my lifetime and that I continue to come back to as I consider how to be a fully devoted follower (disciple) of Jesus.
Jeff B. Gissing 