There are many Christians who have erroneously come to understand that most of Christianity can be summed up by what happens inside of a building that has come to be known as “the church.” Christians in America have come to see “going to church” or their ministry “in a church” as the biggest part [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Missional’
02/20/2007
The Four Missional Mandates!
Four Missional Mandates
The gospel-mission of Christ’s people was clearly made known as seen in some of the final words of our Lord. Before the Lord Jesus ascended to be with the Father, He gave clear and consistent direction to His followers that they were to continue His mission of redemption by proclaiming the gospel [...]
02/16/2007
The Mission of the Church
There is much talk about the mission of the church and why it exists. There are probably few pastors that could not name Rick Warren’s 5 purposes of the church.[1] Churches and its leaders struggle to hammer out mission, vision, and purpose statements. In all of the effort and desire to formulate nice, neat [...]
01/19/2007
Missio Dei Part 2
The Mission of God
Mission refers to that action of one being sent to fulfill the will of a superior. In the Bible, it is God who commissions and sends His servants to perform His will. The mission of God has been from the very beginning of time His plan for worldwide redemption. God has, “a [...]
01/08/2007
Missio Dei Part 1: The Church, Intentionally on Mission
This past week and all this week I am sitting in the library at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; attempting to get a big portion of writing done for my doctoral program. I have been completely away from the blogs. I am going to post some of the work I have been doing.
Recovering Our Mission
“For God [...]
