More Missional Cooperation in the Post-Denominational Culture

Oct 22nd, 2008 | By art rogers | Category: Church, General Christian, Missional, SBC

So, the bottom line from the group with whom I have been meeting is that we are all doing missions. All of us. Not one person is not connected to a stretching, servant oriented engagement in a far away place.

And we are already networked. We all know each other and we are all interested in each other enough to drive to where we are to see each other and talk about it.

And we are all Southern Baptists who talked about trying to leverage the established infrastructure to accomplish what we are trying to accomplish, but found through several experiences that it just won’t happen. That’s a long story and I’m not interested in rehearsing it or defending the observations of others, so I’ll leave it.

Because it’s not the point.

What is happening is that we are going ourselves, funding our own going and telling others about it in order to invite them along.

And God is doing amazing things. Our churches are taking a externally focused, servant messenger position and it is changing… us.

I know. You thought I was going to say it was changing the world. God is certainly doing that and we are certainly privileged to be a part.

But the biggest change is in us. We are more captivated and more excited and more engaged locally and more aware of those far from God than ever.

At this point, the only thing that we really lack is a more intentional process of involving others in what God is doing in and through us.

The rest is already done.