Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World

They have yet to be convinced that God’s primary location is out ahead of the churches, and not only inside them.

• Based on the listening we are doing, where might the Spirit be inviting us to join with God in our neighborhoods? • Are there some concrete steps we can take to test out this sense of the Spirit’s invitation?

There is no pretense that those involved have it all worked out. There’s lots of messiness and experimenting as people act and learn their way into a different imagination, and we will see in part II just what those actions could look like.

places where ordinary life unfolds.

Participating in the mission of God has to come prior to knowing what the church will be.

Faith at Work,

• As we join with people in our neighborhood, are we seeing fresh ways God is already at work? What are we seeing? • Are we being transformed by this experience? What is changing in us? • Are we discovering how to be church in our communities? What are we discovering?

They pursued growth with gusto, expanding new church development, filling seminaries, and extending corporate denominational structures offering cradle-to-grave, branded programs that branched across the continent.

Listening: Attending to God, one another, and our neighborhoods 2. Discerning: Discovering where the Spirit is inviting us to join with God in our neighborhoods 3. Testing: Engaging simple actions to join with God in the neighborhood 4. Reflection: Gathering to ask, What did we do? What are we learning? Where did we see God at work? 5. Deciding: De