Perspectives on a Missional Life
Missional \’mish-ə-nəl\ adj: 1: referring to the essence of someone or something as being on mission 2: permeating the mindset,focus, strategies, and performance of a church 3: pointing, showing, modeling the way of following Jesus 4: not a program, but the driving force; not related to model, size, style, or culture. See related terms: incarnational;... Continue Reading →
Prayer is such a vital foundation for our missional lives... Spurgeon went as far as to say, "If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer." In Colossians 4:2 Paul exhorts us to devote ourselves to prayer, being watchful and... Continue Reading →
Stetzer asks the question, “Should the definition of "salvation" be expanded beyond personal redemption of sins to include social justice through the reformation of economic and political institutions?” This question is quite relevant in our current missional culture. Is the primary purpose and mission of Christians to “fix” society, culture, and politics in addition to... Continue Reading →
It is true that there has been case after case where a short-term volunteer or mission team inadvertently caused more harm than good while on mission. In order to maximize one's efforts and minimize the negative fall-out, one should be familiar with some of the most common cross-cultural pitfalls. One of the best resources to get... Continue Reading →
This week, Ed Stetzer began a new theme on "Mondays are for Missiology" and his topic was how missions relates to the role of salvation in the missional conversation. We want to focus on how salvation "plays out" in the missional discussion. A few of the prominent views of salvation include: salvation by works or good deeds - the idea of the scale tipping... Continue Reading →
Did you know... Perpetua (the courageous early martyr) was only 22. Athanasius of Alexandria was 29 when he argued successfully for the divinity of Christ at the historic Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. Martin Luther was in his early 30's when he nailed his 95 theses to the door of the castle church in... Continue Reading →
In the current Christian culture, I find it is easy to lose focus and get caught up with sparkly things... I want to speak like THAT pastor... to have 1000's of people at my church like so-and-so... to plant 3 satellite churches off of our main campus... to be on radio, tv, streaming internet, twitter, facebook, blogspot, wordpress, and my... Continue Reading →
I recently had a conversation with Ken & Paula Hemphill about "splashing living water" onto others as you go about your day. The Hemphills had given one of their grandchildren a bath and in the end, all were soaked with the splashing water from the delighted baby at play. This sparked the vision for Ken &... Continue Reading →
Are we too easily pleased??? This quote by C.S. Lewis challenges us to re-think... C. S. Lewis: If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics... Continue Reading →
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