From Jim:
Yesterday and today Michael Frost, co-author of ReJesus: The Wild Messiah for the Missional Church, spoke in three settings in Houston. At the lunch meeting he challenged and inspired me. I want to recapture what I heard him say for my own learning. This are my notes.
Throughout modernity the Church has focused on four purposes - worship, discipleship, community, and mission. During this period, we have done discipleship and community around worship - on Sunday mornings, with the preacher as the center piece of the experience. And for a long time that worked.
He suggested that in this era a more effective way to think about the work of the Church is to do worship, community, and discipleship around mission. He proposes that the Church is a collection of the sent ones. While on mission, worship, community and discipleship take on a much more powerful focus.
What would happen if the vision for local missional congregations was to equip missional leaders who, as they were on mission were worshipping, building community, and making disciples? Does this seem really different to you? It does to me.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
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