http://missionalchurchnetwork.com/evangelical-conversion-toward-a-missional-ecclesiology/ moving towards a missional mindset Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:56:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://missionalchurchnetwork.com/evangelical-conversion-toward-a-missional-ecclesiology/comment-page-1/#comment-1735 Brad Brisco Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:56:59 +0000 http://missionalchurchnetwork.com/evangelical-conversion-toward-a-missional-ecclesiology/#comment-1735 Tom, good words. Yes and what makes a Christian "good and faithful" in the picture you paint? Perfect attendance at each of the three "feeding" times! Agreed that "this is crazy." Tom, good words. Yes and what makes a Christian “good and faithful” in the picture you paint? Perfect attendance at each of the three “feeding” times! Agreed that “this is crazy.”

]]> http://missionalchurchnetwork.com/evangelical-conversion-toward-a-missional-ecclesiology/comment-page-1/#comment-1732 Tom Rees Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:02:57 +0000 http://missionalchurchnetwork.com/evangelical-conversion-toward-a-missional-ecclesiology/#comment-1732 Sad, but true his words,"In the end, in America the church has come to be understood as a “vendor of religious services and goods.” I have been a purveyor of these services and goods for 18 or so years. I recently stepped out of "official" ministry. Now it is as though scales continue to fall from my eyes in regard to "church." A visiting friend from another city commented just last weekend that the pastor at the church where they attend preaches Sunday morning, Sunday night, and gives a Bible lesson on Wednesday night. While this pattern was not unfamiliar to me especially in smaller rural churches, for the first time I reflected on this activity. For the first time I was able to peer into to this a sort of outsider and I concluded...THIS IS CRAZY! Imagine week after week after months after years Christians sitting to soak up lesson after lesson believing that this activity equals christianity. I look at Jesus, His words, the New Testament and wonder...how did we get here. I'm afraid that the current evangelical churches "mission" is educationalism to a point of having no time to think about being Jesus in their world. Sad, but true his words,”In the end, in America the church has come to be understood as a “vendor of religious services and goods.” I have been a purveyor of these services and goods for 18 or so years. I recently stepped out of “official” ministry. Now it is as though scales continue to fall from my eyes in regard to “church.” A visiting friend from another city commented just last weekend that the pastor at the church where they attend preaches Sunday morning, Sunday night, and gives a Bible lesson on Wednesday night. While this pattern was not unfamiliar to me especially in smaller rural churches, for the first time I reflected on this activity. For the first time I was able to peer into to this a sort of outsider and I concluded…THIS IS CRAZY! Imagine week after week after months after years Christians sitting to soak up lesson after lesson believing that this activity equals christianity. I look at Jesus, His words, the New Testament and wonder…how did we get here. I’m afraid that the current evangelical churches “mission” is educationalism to a point of having no time to think about being Jesus in their world.

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