I seem to be keeping fairly busy lately. Not blogging as much as normal, although normal is not all that much. Nevertheless, the last few days I’ve spent a good deal of time getting acquainted with my newest grandchild Isla Mae since her arrival Saturday October 24th. Isn’t she beautiful! I have ten other...
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Missional Exploration: Joining God in the Neighborhoods of Life
Monthly Archives: October 2009
God is great! Life is good! I am blessed!
Chuck Swindoll's 10 Lifetime Leadership Lessons
During the recent Catalyst Conference in Atlanta Chuck Swindoll shared “10 Things I Have Learned During 50 Years in Leadership. These can be found at Out of Ur Newsletter. Because I’ve followed Swindoll’s ministry for years and have deep respect for him, here they are: It’s lonely to lead. Leadership involves tough decisions. The...
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Salvation for Me and Me Alone
Soong-Chan Rah writes: The expression of excessive individualism in local church life is rooted in the excessive individualism of Western evangelical theology. Evangelicalism’s idolatry of the individual has crippled the church’s ability to view sin and salvation outside of the narrow parameters of a personal faith. Evangelical theology becomes exclusively an individual-driven theology instead...
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WHAT IS MISSIONAL - A Short Answer
"Jesus told us to go into all the world and be his ambassadors, but many churches today have inadvertently changed the "go and be" command to a "come and see" appeal. We have grown attached to buildings, programs, staff and a wide variety of goods and services designed to attract and entertain people.
"Missional is a helpful term used to describe what happens when you and I replace the "come to us" invitations with a "go to them" life. A life where "the way of Jesus" informs and radically transforms our existence to one wholly focused on sacrificially living for him and others and where we adopt a missionary stance in relation to our culture. It speaks of the very nature of the Jesus follower."
---Rick Meigs http://friendofmissional.com
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