http://linealanoie.com/2010/01/02/pushed-to-efficiency-but-no-rest-in-sight/ Life - as I live it Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:33:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://linealanoie.com/2010/01/02/pushed-to-efficiency-but-no-rest-in-sight/#comment-4258 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:02:33 +0000 http://linealanoie.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/pushed-to-efficiency-but-no-rest-in-sight/#comment-4258 I do believe that pastoring a missional church would be a challenge but more because people are reluctant to choose to live in ways that reflect the mission of Christ than for any other reason. I think it would involve a daily and continued discernment of how and where God wants a community of believers to be his church in the world. It involves the community of believers responding as Jesus did to the world – with love and compassion in order to bring about God’s peace in the world. So, in a sense it is the defining raison d”etre of the church.
I don’t understand how being a missional community of believers would prevent growth and allow immorality to run rife.

]]> http://linealanoie.com/2010/01/02/pushed-to-efficiency-but-no-rest-in-sight/#comment-4257 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:19:07 +0000 http://linealanoie.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/pushed-to-efficiency-but-no-rest-in-sight/#comment-4257 Pastoring a missional church is almost a contradiction, and is certainly a challenge. I have serious doubts about missional church, now I’ve been involved in one for 18 months, and about evangelists as community heads in general. Yes, churches need to be missional, but the missionality needs to be one aspect of church and not the defining and overwhelming focus. Otherwise people do not grow, either as Christians or as family, the backdoor stays wide open and immorality can run rife.

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