Reggie McNeal 1a
Sep 10th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Church, General Christian, Live Blogging, Missional, SBCJohn 4:34-35
Open your eyes, the fields are ripe for harvest.
Surveyed room: 2 people in leadership Christians for less than 15 years. Chrisianity can’t survive with the leadership this mature.
We are pharisees: come and get it church culture.
Across denomInations, missional people have more in common with other missionals than those that don’t. The great divide in America is among those that “get it” & those that don’t. You are going to self opt in or out.
If you are going to be a part, you must make three shifts.
First shift from an internal, church-centric focus to an external focus. We try to export the church because we rhink the church saves people. We don’t take God to people. God is already there.
We have Muslim Imams coming to our M’s saying that Jesus is appearing to them in their dreams. Blackaby is right, we need to join God where He is working.
cont’d momentarily
Wow!
That is what my assoc. p and I were talking about today.