“But it has taken us decades to
realize that mission is not just a program of the Church. It defines the Church
as God’s sent people. Either we are defined by mission, or we reduce the scope
of the gospel and the mandate of the Church. Thus our challenge today is to
move from church with mission to missional church.”[ii]
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Guder - On the Missional Church
“… God’s mission is calling and
sending us, the Church of Jesus Christ, to be a missionary church in our own
societies, in the cultures in which we find ourselves. These cultures are no
longer Christian; some would argue that they never were. … Neither the
structures nor the theology of our established Western traditional churches is
missional.”[i]
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