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God desires for us to connect the blessing of God to the rest of the world. As Reggie McNeal points out in his book Missional Renaissance the church is to be like an airport terminal. Airport terminals are not destinations. No one stays in an airport overnight, if they can help it. The seats are …
I don’t mean “not good looking. I mean, not attracting others. In the Church sense. See, a lot of the missional leaders I read and post from have come from some pretty large church experiences. They have planted churches that have grown exponentially. They have built church empires. They have gone into the “church as …
I’m sure I’ve seen this image before. Not sure if I’ve used it. It’s a good one.
Summertime hits us hard here in Seward, Alaska. We are a tourist destination and this place is “hopping” from May through September. People come from around South Central Alaska to come and play in Seward with their fishing poles in hand, with boats in the water, with their RVs in the campgrounds. And all of …
Matt Weston has 13 signs of a Church on Mission. They are good. So, the truly missional church has all of the following characteristics: …loves Jesus and as a result, loves the people that Jesus loves. …has members who are aware of and tangibly living out their unique missional calling. …spends a significant portion of …
This is a screen-grab from Kenneth A Camp’s site where he states that the reason we should be missional is for discipleship reasons. This is in contrast to reasons such as church growth or just being tired of the traditional church model. As I reflect on my own reasons, I truly believe that “missional” is …
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Whenever I’m tempted to give up because change is taking too long, I take great comfort in Jesus’ seed parables. The kingdom of God is like a seed, not a building project.
The seed is small, unimpressive, easily overlooked. The seed is planted in the ground, which is actually a death. The seed dies in the ground, but then is transformed and begins to grow. Slowly, but surely, the seed grows into a plant that fills a garden with fruit.
That’s what change will be like in your church. Plant the kingdom seed of a missional movement, and just keep tending to it. You can’t make it grow, but you can give it the right conditions for growth. It will eventually grow into a beautiful plant that gives life.
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This is from the good folks over at The Verge Network.
Missional Field Notes 