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Jan 07, 2016
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What’s Going On???
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Demystifying The Missional Church.....A Guide To Understanding
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Are You Mystified By Miss ional Church Talk???
Miss ional What????
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RIGHT TOOLS????
Is there a connection to understanding missional church?
We think there is!!Something else to think about …..
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SOME WAYS TO TALK ABOUT THE MISSIONAL CHURCH ………..
God’s Mission Focused Congregation Mission Centered Congregation
The Beloved Community
A Worshipping and Reconciling Community
God’s People Doing God’s Mission Congregation Centered on God’s Mission
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What Some People Say…. A community of people who truly experience the love of God, and out of that accept, love, and is doing.
A group of people who are constant disciples, following and sharing the word and modeling Jesus Christ, in their own communities and in the world.
A praying church; Empowered by the Holy Spirit to reach out to its community of believers: its neighbors, around the world and /or wherever the church lives out their lives daily.
One beggar telling another where to find bread; One lonely heart finding another in community; God’s community sharing god’s love (forgiveness, peace, resources) at home and around the world; Sees and shares beyond itself; Seeks to take seriously god’s call and claim given us in Jesus Christ; God’s love flowing through us to the world.
An unordinary motley group of people who are known to their neighbors next door and even to strangers far away as loving, praying, welcoming, listening, honest, peacemakers and justice seekers – people who share openly that they are this way because of Jesus and they just want to be part of what god is doing.
A church who knows who they are and whose they are, who desire for others to know who
they are and whose they are…GOD’s.
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What Do You Say It Is????…….
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Missional Church Is NOT About……..
More mission projects Sending missionaries Helping Just giving money
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Missional Church Is About…….
YOU And Your CONGREGATION
- Having a conversion experience
- Walking with God through worship and praise
- Discovering God’s call on your life
- Aligning your life with the mission of God
- Daily living incarnationally
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SO, WHAT IS GOD”S MISSION?????…….
Let’s Explore!!!!!!
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What does our scriptures say??…. Genesis 12:1-3 (Sarah/Abraham) - To have a people.
Luke 4:18-19 (Jubilee text) - To set things right in a broken and sinful world.
Luke 8:43ff (woman with the hemorrhage) - To redeem and heal the world.
Ephesians 2:13-22 - To reconcile.
John 10:7-10 - To give us abundant and full life.
II Corinthians 5:18-6:1 (ambassadors of reconciliation) - To be reconciled to us and bring about restoration.
John 3:16 (God loves the world) - To redeem the world for everlasting life.
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WHAT IS A “MISSIONAL CHURCH”?……..
It is………. A church that is shaped by participating in the mission of God A church that lets God send us as Jesus was sent, to proclaim and be a sign of the reign of
God A church where mission permeates its whole life: To discern the churches calling To worship God, our ruler To witness holistically To train for discipleship To show what God wants for the world A church that is a contrast (different) community in the midst of a changing culture A church that is willing to take risks in the power of the Holy Spirit, in light of God’s final victory
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INCARNATIONAL VALUES OF A MISSIONAL CHURCH……..
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Equipped Members
Gift Discernment --- Affirmation
Celebration
Spiritual Formation - Biblical Study
Redeemed Community
Ministry Formation
Re-Alignment With God’s Mission
Redemption
Service
Community
Worship
Prayer
Results
Assembled Values
Core Values
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Missional
Congregations
Tell Three Life Giving Stories…
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Congregation’s Story
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World’s Story
GOD”S Story
REDEMPTION
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Missional = Finding God and Loving It !!!“Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.
It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.”
-Pedro Arrupe, SJ
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Change Begins With Your Perspective
How we respond depends on our point of view
It is based on what we have been conditioned to see
What do you see?
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WHERE ARE YOU?
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