In case you haven’t heard – there is a REVOLUTION going on in relation to what is happening within the Church across the globe. Massive changes are taking place. These changes impact the models and methods of the local church.
The Missional Movement is just one of the models that is reshaping how we “do” church. In short, church is not where you go … it is who you are. If you really want to interpret the New Testament correctly in Matthew 28:18, the word “Go” shoudl be interpreted “as you are going”.
“Making Disciples” is the key verb in the sentence structure of Matthew 28:18-20. Thereofe, the key to the power & presence Jesus has given us is “make dsiciples” as we go, wherever we go. Missions is not something we do it is who you are. We all are “missionaries”. Try this on for size, how we live our daily lives is “worship” unto the Lord.
The root word for “worship” is the same word for “work” in the Genesis 2. Oh, so i God’s eyes work and worship are similar. Well, if this be true, in God’s eyes is there such a thing as “secular” and “sacred”.
The words below are an excert of a blog from the first pastor I serve with over 27 years ago. Chuck Warnock is still being used mightily by God to challenge the status quo in the church, today.
Read these words below and then go to this blog and read the “rest of the story” by Chuck Warnock
” … Rather than trying to figure out how to get people to do what we
want them to do – attend, give, care, serve, study, and so on – why
don’t we talk to people about what they need from God? What they
expect from a community of faith? What they hope their faith will
enable them to be?
want them to do – attend, give, care, serve, study, and so on – why
don’t we talk to people about what they need from God? What they
expect from a community of faith? What they hope their faith will
enable them to be?
Which, of course, brings me to Jesus. He actually did all of
that. Not that he needed to learn, but he used those conversations to
engage the woman at the well, Zacchaeus, blind Bartimaeus, his own
disciples, his friends, his family, and his followers. How did we lose
the simple idea of one person talking to another about things that
matter? How can we move the community of faith back into conversations
with each other and the world? That’s the challenge we face. That’s
the future of church.”
