I believe every person in this room can be a missionary. In fact, I believe that each of you here, if you are a follower of Christ, already is a missionary. The question here is what type of missionary are you, or will you be? CALL I rarely use the term “Call to Missions” For …
Category: Missional Churches
Look at the role of churches recognizing their purpose in accomplishing God’s mission.
The Perfect Church Never Existed??
I am a Baptist missionary. Baptists have long held, to some extent, Christian Restorationist inclinations. This is also known as Christian Primitivism. This assumes that the "ideal church" or "perfect church" existed shortly after Pentecost, and slowly there was a degradation over time into the mess we are in now. A different variation on this …
What Does Your Church’s Front Door Look Like
<Decided to place a post that I put on our family website here. https://bobandceliamunson.wordpress.com/> US at least, most houses have more than one entrance. The side door or garage door is commonly used by family members--- the family door. Often the front door, seeming the main door of the house, is used less and is …
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Disobedient Christians Hanging Out Together Quote
The church exists for mission. As Christopher Wright says, 'Jesus did not give a mission to his church; he formed a church for his mission.' Without the mission, a church is not a church; it's just a group of disobedient Christians hanging out. The church is a movement before it is an institution. And the …
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“Three Als” Quote (Mission-Al, Attraction-Al, Incarnation-Al)
"(Michael) Frost and (Alan) Hirsch who are great proponents of the missional church, make a clear distinction between incarnational and attractional churches. They see incarnational churches as the opposite of attractional churches. The attractional church, as they see it, does everything possible within the church to get more people flocking to the church, often ignoring …
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A New Era of Philippine Missions?
National Missions Conference 2022 (Koronadal City, Philippines) I don't have my finger on the pulse of Philippine Missions. As an independent missionary, I don't go to a lot of missions meetings--- especially those involving mission agencies or mobilizers. Nevertheless, it seems like there have been some changes lately in Philippine Missions... for the good. I …
Church and Missions Relationship
How one sees the relationship between the church and missions has ramifications on how one sees missions. Consider three perspectives as shown above. First let's consider OPTION A. With this perspective, the church consists of local churches only. Missions occurs only to the extent that local churches directly carry out missions. There are two groups …
Missional Church Quote
I am going to be facilitating a seminar on the Missional Church. This is not an area of expertise for me (one of a plethora of topics that is not an area of expertise for me). But I do know some of the edges of what it is not. I know that the Missional Church …
The Counterproductive Missionary?
So... let's talk about some well-known expansions of Christianity. One of these was the growth of the church in the Roman Empire, and adjoining territories during the first 3 centuries. The church grew rapidly. If I remember right (and am quite prepared to be wrong), the church averaged growth of around 20% per year. That …