Institutional v. Missional Church: Denominations
Mar 3rd, 2009 | By art rogers | Category: Church, General Christian, Missional, SBC
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Subtitled:Â Guess that author…
Only an Institutional mind could conceive that the Mission of God would be fulfilled by the work of a denomination. It can not, therefore it will not.
To the extent that any organization helps its participants, be it the local church facilitating the individual’s missional life or the various levels of denomination facilitating the church facilitating the individual’s missional life, then it is beneficial.
When that organization exists to duplicate the work of the church or, God forbid, that it should deviate so far as to simply seek its own survival, it should be flung as far as possible from the those pursuing the call of God to disciple the nations, for it will only impede their progress.
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Paige Patterson?
Heh. That’s funny.
Frank Paige?
That’s not a bad guess. Frank was a reformer, but I’m not sure, especially as president of the SBC, that he would ever say that a denomination should be flung as far as possible away from its members.
You’ll have to pick someone a little less ingrained in the workings of denominations.
I will say that this person has a Southern Baptist background.
Bob Roberts
Ed Stetzer or Craig Roichel (Life Church, not sure of spelling)?
I think my grandad said something like that once. But we all thought he was crazy!!
davids last blog post..3.1.09 setlist.
Not Bob, Ed or Craig (Groeschel).
Or David’s crazy grandad.
Ok…game over…If we go through 9 commments w/o an answer, I’m not playing any more!
It’s not like they were 9 guesses… Half the comments were mine! You’d think a man done with his dissertation would have more time and patience…
Art Rogers
Art Rogers what? Oh, you mean I’m the author?
Well… Got me. Trick question.
Bart gets the prize. David Knuckles figured it out within about 3 minutes, but he’s around me all the time.
The dissertation comment gave it away!
What? David’s the one done with his dissertation. Did you just fall into that?
Man!