Missional Church Quote

Great Quote by Rick Meigs on the Missional Church and a better understanding of the Great Commission. However, instead of simply requoting him, you can click below to go to blog where I read it. -------------------- Missional Conundrum (mcilweb.blogspot.com)

The Uncomfortable Missionary in Church

I have to confess this a bit. I really enjoy missions work much more than church work.  I am not alone in this. <I will put my confession in a follow-up post.> The Monastic movement in the early churches (Orthodox, Coptic, Nestorian, Roman Catholic, Celtic and Abyssinian... at least) was a rejection, in part, of …

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Missional Churches and Missionary Churches

Missional churches are churches that are driven to support world-wide missions through resources and manpower. Missionary churches are churches started by missionaries. Are they the same thing? Protestant churches have only been in the Philippines (where I live) for a little over 100 years. A large number of Protestant churches are 1st generation missionary churches. …

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Amish Missions?

<This is not about those Christians who seek to minister to the Amish. Frankly, I have absolutely no opinion about them. This is about missions done by Amish Christians to non-Christians.> One of the frustrations I (personally) have in evangelism is the lack of separation between sharing God’s message and sharing one’s denominational message. Not …

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Missional Church Quote

"The two primary wrong questions that misdirect churches away from mission: How do we get people into our churches, and How do we help people?" Both questions leave us in control, in a position where we don't need to change, and besides, church questions are the wrong questions. The right questions are about What is …

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