Fabrications are not suited to the life of faith. They don’t wear well.

Joining God further argued that these four characteristics taken

This, in part, is why so much of the missional conversations in North America became one more version of ecclesiocentric anxiety and a clergy-focused need for control.

Modernity’s wager means that God has been made a useful element in our own agency.

Ferment in the Local

the missional conversation that Newbigin shaped needs to be reimagined from outside the logic of anxiety, survival, or techniques of change.

The Euro-tribal churches have reduced God to a day of the week, a building, a professional, a private moment in the day, to a thing called “evangelism” or “social action,” to “helping” and “meeting needs.”

The Spirit invites us to do something that few families, ethnic or affinity groups would choose: cross boundaries and enter the lives of others who are different and have their own stories, practices and traditions.

Anxieties around Survival Remain