A Quote about Church
Have been doing some thinking and reading lately about the idea of being a missional church. Maybe it’s not something that we can become gradually, but there has to be a near-complete break from what we’re doing now. Something like a conversion from consumer church (a place where certain things happen or certain goods and services are distributed) to missional church (a people who live out the reign of God in certain concrete ways).
Anyway, this is a quote from the book Missional Church that stuck out to me:
“Ministries of leadership are given to enable the church to carry out its fundamentally missiological purpose in the world: to announce and demonstrate the new creation in Jesus Christ.”
I have been reading Radical by David Platt. It echos your comments – great examples of being missional – personally, small groups, and church-wide. It is overwhelming and exciting all-in-one.
I think I have read the first chapter of that book, but it is on my [more immediate] reading list. Any good quotes or thoughts so far that you want to share?
well….just a sampling of the things I underlined:
“…somewhere along the way we had missed what is radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable. We were settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.” p 7
“At the end of the Son of God’s time on earth, he had staked everything on his relationships with twelve men…one of them (Judas) was lost…These eleven guys were the small group responsible for carrying on everything Jesus had begun.” p89
“…we hold the matchless Word of God in our hands, and it demands a superior position in our lives, our families, our small groups, and our churches…we desperately need minds saturated with God’s Word.” p 191
“…a radical lifestyle actually begins with an extraordinary commitment to ordinary practices that have marked Christians who have affected the world throughout history.” p 193
And then an analogy about luxury ship verses a troop carrier…that I already heard back in October? đ
Just to name a few. đ I am finished with my copy if you need to borrow it.
Thanks for the quotes. I have a copy of the book, so you can lend yours to someone else. Thanks for the offer! I will have to share some of my favorites from the book once I finish it.
I want to start blogging too what do you think, which blog platform is good for beginner?