In actuality, I think there is only one answer to “why more people don’t live missionally,” but we’ll get to that later. Here’s an idea I’m kicking around right now about the reason why. Bear with me:
In Exodus, God leads the people out of Egypt. As they journey in the wilderness, on day one, they [...]
I really don’t know how long these posts are going to go on, but I’m going to keep throwing them out there for now. I’ve finished reading Deep Church, but I keep running back through it because there was so much good stuff in there. Here’s a quote from this mornings review:
Out greatest priority, particularly [...]
The gospel should affect us. Every part of us. As soon as I disallow this, I quickly forget my sin and my saviour’s sacrifice.
I wrote a post the other day about segregating Christ to a corner of my life. For a year and a half before I joined the staff at Cornerstone Church in Auburn, [...]
First, if you’re tracking with the conversation on the ‘missional church’ or ‘missional living’ then some/much of what you read below might be familiar to you. I’m just pulling together the conversations I’ve been having and the teachings that have been shaping me. Second, you might suggest, ‘missional’ is just a hip term for living [...]
I’m reading a book right now called Deep Church. I’m loving it. Its playing with my mind and my assumptions of the traditional church as well as the emergent church. One of the issues dealt with in the book is how we allow to people to be a part of the community of believers. It [...]
On the last blog post I received a comment that said, “What does living missionally even mean?” (or something like that). I immediately started thinking. Perhaps this concept is just foreign to a lot of people and therefore the reason why more people aren’t living this way. So, we’ll address this in the next blog [...]
On Wednesday of last week I had the opportunity to sit in a room with about 20 very missionally minded people and have a conversation with Don Golden, co-author of Jesus Wants To Save Christians. It was a pretty weighty conversation that revolved mostly around our theology. My spirit was wrestling. God is clearly taking [...]