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Missional?
Prayer
Worship
Reason
Emotion
The
Kingdom
of God
Attraction
Evangelism
Soteriological
Ecclesiological
Eschatological
Social
Fellowship
Mission in more than and different from
recruitment to our brand of religion; it is
alerting people to the universal reign of God.
David Bosch
The Church is not so much the agent of the
mission as the locus of the mission… It is
impossible to stress too strongly that the
beginning of mission is not an action of ours,
but the presence of a new reality, the
presence of the Spirit of God in power.
Lesslie Newbigin
Missional?
•Missio Dei…
Missional nature of God
Missional activity of God
Extra-cultural action of God
The church serves the missio Dei in the
world… (when) it points to God at work
in world history and names him there.
World Council of Churches
Mission is, primarily and ultimately, the
work of the Triune God, Creator,
Redeemer, and Sanctifier for the sake of
the world, a ministry in which the church
is
privileged
to
participate.
David Bosch
Missional?
•Incarnational…
Sent Church
Community life
Patterned after God
A missional ecclesiology is rooted in God’s
character and purpose as a sending or missionary
God. Therefore, it’s starting point is the missional
nature of The Trinity. God the Father sent the Son.
God the Father and the Son sends the Spirit. God
the Father, the Son and the Spirit sends the Church.
The church is God’s sent missional people. So just
as Jesus was the fullness of God incarnated and
embodied in a human being, the missional church
follows Jesus’ model, learning from him how to
embody the fullness of God as a new way of being
human for the sake of the world. That is it’s very
identity
and
essence.
Jason Zahariades
Mission as witness and a journey within
the world, not a judgement made from
outside
it.
Vinay Samuel
Journeying out requires the capacity to
rise above the anxiety associated with
encountering and embracing a potentially
overwhelming,
outside
world.
Ann Morisy
Missional?
•Hospitality…
Sacrificial welcome
Indigenous spirituality
Unconditional commitment
Hospitality can be, and very frequently is Sacrificial.
Caring for the stranger can require us to think
‘outside the box’ or deliberately extend ourselves
beyond our normal limits in order to understand how
to
be
present
to
someone.
David Dieter
A Missional Community is one where sacrificial
hospitality is the norm... i.e. hospitality that extends
beyond what is comfortable to the church and does
not reinforce cultural stereotyping nor enforce
acceptance criteria but sees individuals as children
of God regardless of culture, history etc.
Sadhu Sunder Singh [was] asked “What
have you found in Christianity that you did
not have in your old religion?” The Sadhu
answered, “I have Christ.” “Yes I know,”
the professor replied, a little impatiently…
“but what particular principle or doctrine
have you found that you did not have
before?”
The Sadhu replied, “The
particular thing I have found is Christ.”
E. Stanley Jones
Christians have usually failed to exersise
a radical trust in the Holy Spirit and
instead have imposed on ‘converts’ prepackaged forms of church life and
discipleship which have extracted them
from
their
society.
David Smith
Missional?
•Holistic…
Shalom
Kingdom of God
Reconciliation
Restoration
Reform/Reversal
“The general meaning behind the root sh-l-m is of
completion and fulfillment—of entering into a state of
wholeness and unity, a restored relationship.
...Shalom, and its related words shalem, shelem and
their derivatives, are among the most important
theological words in the OT. … ‘Peace,’ in this case,
means much more than mere absence of war.
Rather, the root meaning of the verb shalem better
expresses the true concept of shalom —
completeness, wholeness, harmony, fulfillment, are
closer to the meaning. Implicit in shalom is the idea
of unimpaired relationships with others and
fulfillment in one's undertakings. … In nearly twothirds of its occurrences, shalom describes the state
of fulfillment which is the result of God's presence.”
A Gospel that conveys the idea that salvation
is a subjective experience of isolated
individuals is not the Christian gospel… If
anyone is in Christ, there and then God’s new
world becomes visible, a new creation
encompassing heaven and earth is manifest.
The church does not exist to promote a private
religious experience but to enlist people for the
service of the Kingdom of justice and peace.
C. Rene Padilla