How can we bring the Gospel into our community in a more effective and powerful way?
I have been reading a great book – Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community (Re:Lit)
Here are some thoughts that I am chewing on that have come as I have been reading:
These statements have got me really thinking:
- how can we see church as an Identity instead of a responsibility to be juggled alongside other commitments
- celebrating ordinary life as the context in which the Word of God is proclaimed with “God-talk” as a normal feature of everyday conversation
- running fewer “evangelistic events”… and spending more time sharing our lives with unbelievers
- starting new congregations instead of just growing existing ones
- adopting a 24-7 approach to mission and pastoral care instead of starting ministry programs
- switching the emphasis from Bible teaching to Bible learning and action
- spending more time with people on the margins of society
- learning to disciple on another – and to be discipled – day by day
- having churches that are messy instead of churches that are pretend