Sublime

“Where might … ?”

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.

While gathered environments (such as Sunday services and small groups) can grow the church, only scattered servants can bring life to broken cities.

This God acts to reshape the world, with and among totally ordinary people who have been deemed of no value. Moses’—and the churches’—vocation is to participate in this primary drama of God’s acting.

work of the people.

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

It calls us into the risky space of discerning where God is at work rather than depending on our own assessments of needs, which conveniently leave us in control of agendas and

A paradigm is a belief system that lies deep inside us as a group or society,

The book Joining God, Remaking the Church, Changing the World, written in 2015, responds to the question of what was involved in being a missional church.