Last Saturday I attended an Asset Based Community Development Workshop here in Vancouver, Washington. This event was sponsored by Second Stories. Also participating was the Fruit Valley Foundation and Americans Building Community. The following Chinese proverb was mentioned during the workshop presentation. A proverb that sounds extremely missional. Go to the people. Live among...
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Missional Exploration: Joining God in the Neighborhoods of Life
Missional Chinese Proverb
Preparing for Advent 2010
Like many others I’m becoming quite bothered by all the commercialism involved with Christmas. It doesn’t seem to be improving, just getting worse year by year, but maybe that is to be expected given the world we live in. Our culture is certainly skewed when it comes to understanding the concept of value. I...
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Thinking about Revival
Recently I’ve been thinking about the idea of revival in relationship to Christianity. This is probably due, to the fact that, some of the folk I hang with are using this word once again. In days gone by the word “revival” was more prevalent and tossed around much more. Many like myself were...
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The Cross
After seeing a young brother in the faith the other day with the words of Paul, “for me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”(Philippians 1:21) tattooed on his forearm and dealing with some tensions life throws one’s way on occasion, I’ve been meditating on this verse. Today while focused on this...
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Prayer for Watchfullness
Keep us, O Lord, While we tarry on earth, in serious seeking for you, and in an affectionate walking with you, every day of our lives; that when you come, we may be found not hiding our talent, nor serving the flesh, nor yet asleep with our lamp unfurnished, but waiting and longing for...
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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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