1 / 14

Becoming Missional

Becoming Missional. Presbyter to the Spiritual Community Report. “ The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you ... …By the grace of God .” Walter Brueggemann.

gefen
Download Presentation

Becoming Missional

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Becoming Missional Presbyter to the Spiritual Community Report

  2. “ The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you ... …By the grace of God.” Walter Brueggemann

  3. The present tensions represent the necessary pains that accompany the birth of anything new. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  4. It was God who took us into the wilderness and the exile … Now is God is taking us into another change into strange new place…

  5. I am convinced that God is forcing us to be missional to enter the world around us whether or not we want it, know it, or are aware of it.

  6. What is missional? Shifting from seeing that the church has a mission or supports mission … …to the church being a mission? The church is as much the church out in the world as it is when it is gathered.

  7. How is God making us missional? • In our Denomination • New Form of Government • “The Mission of God in Christ gives shape and substance to the life and work of the Church.” • Outcome based • Mission context focused • 1001 Worshipping Communities

  8. How is God making us missional? • In our Presbytery • Smaller institutional budget • Decreased staff • Virtual office • Re-ordered Agenda • Worship and Mission first • Ideas to delegate authority for business • Potential: world café, open source conversations • Changing ourselves • Structuring for relationships • Using a consultant for embedding missional

  9. The benefits for your congregation • Less Presbytery overhead freeing money for your mission • Inspiring and enlightening meetings not burdening you with muchness and busyness • A focus on: “how is this enhancing God’s mission in the world?” • Gatherings in your mission context not “the office” • Familiarity with and support from others doing God’s mission

  10. How is God making us missional? • God’s Missional plantings among us • “Incipient congregation” in prison • Seasonal fellowship in Hyannis • “Pay as you Go Café” • House Church in Amherst • “Harvest Now” garden in Stamford • Mutuality in mission with the IPIB

  11. We live in one of the most momentous periods of human history. It is an exciting age filled with hope. It is an age in which a new social order is being born. • We stand today between two worlds--the dying old and the emerging new. • MLK, Jr.

  12. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God.’ And the one who was seated on the throne said, ‘See, I am making all things new.’ Revelation 22

  13. Discussion Questions • How are you (self, congregation, ministry) living out already God’s missional call? • What excites you about what you’ve heard today of God’s missional work in our midst?

More Related