How are you doing?
As we have and continue to take this difficult but freeing journey together, what observations have you made? How are you doing with the focus on a New Testament missional paradigm for "being the Church" rather than "just going to church" and doing it all at church and trying to get others to come to church (as the main thing)?
Are you seeing the value of living incarnationally in the world to fulfill the Great Commission (as a supreme thing) so that others who need Jesus can see Him and find Him through?
posted by Bob Carder @ 1:47 PM
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3 Comments:
Thanks for all the fun, and the serious, things to respond to on your site! And thanks, as in this case, for personal provocation. That makes you PROVOCATIONAL, which is a REAL WORD!
DOING or BEING the church ... what a difference. Here's what I've found.
When I resigned a more "traditional" ministry, took a sabbatical leave, got involved in secular work, let God use me to start a new body of believers ... I found out more about BEING the church than ever before!
BUT NOW ... now that this "new church" has established it's own "tradition" and is leasing a facility it doesn't have to move in and out of every week, it starts to DO THE CHURCH again! A nice facility has promoted, quite unintentionally, a sense of comfort. Thus a sense of "CHURCH" on Sunday. A FOCUS of ministry on SUNDAY! It's harder to BE the church during the week.
God help us to STAY ON OUR TOES with this one!
Oh no! I did it! PROVOCATIONAL is NOT in Webster's! Sorry!
Hey Tim, I need to speak with you sometime via email as a good place to start. bcarder@centurytel.net
I need to use your post incognito.
Can I?
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