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Institutional v. Missional Church: Denominations

Mar 3rd, 2009 | By art rogers | Category: Church, General Christian, Missional, SBC

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Subtitled:  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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  1. David Phillips March 3rd, 2009 7:37 pm

    Paige Patterson?

  2. art rogers March 3rd, 2009 8:05 pm

    Heh. That’s funny.

  3. Bart March 4th, 2009 6:32 am

    Frank Paige?

  4. art rogers March 4th, 2009 6:57 am

    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.

  5. David Phillips March 4th, 2009 12:14 pm

    Bob Roberts

  6. Bart March 4th, 2009 12:17 pm

    Ed Stetzer or Craig Roichel (Life Church, not sure of spelling)?

  7. david March 4th, 2009 1:07 pm

    I think my grandad said something like that once. But we all thought he was crazy!!

    davids last blog post..3.1.09 setlist.

  8. art rogers March 4th, 2009 3:12 pm

    Not Bob, Ed or Craig (Groeschel).

    Or David’s crazy grandad.

  9. David Phillips March 4th, 2009 3:22 pm

    Ok…game over…If we go through 9 commments w/o an answer, I’m not playing any more!

  10. art rogers March 4th, 2009 4:08 pm

    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…

  11. Bart March 4th, 2009 4:12 pm

    Art Rogers

  12. art rogers March 4th, 2009 4:22 pm

    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.

  13. Bart March 4th, 2009 4:55 pm

    The dissertation comment gave it away!

  14. art rogers March 4th, 2009 4:58 pm

    What? David’s the one done with his dissertation. Did you just fall into that?

    Man!