We had eight at the cohort conversation on February 26. After agreeing that we had pretty much finished discussing The Shack at our January meeting, at least for the being, we turned to a discussion of JD’s post on Talking and Walking (see the second January 30th post, below).
There are so many attractional churches today, what’s an emergent-minded person to do? Should one try to work from within to make attractional churches more missional? Should we leave our attractional churches and start new missional fellowships? Should we stay at our attractional churches and just try to be missional on an individual basis? If you know our group, you won’t be surprised that the consensus answer was “yes” to each question. Each of us will find different ways to be missional, and we need to remember that God uses all churches in different ways. It is too easy to be smug about your current church, without remembering that (hopefully) we are on a journey and that we’ll all be in a different, more mature place tomorrow than we are today.
If you were at the meeting, please feel free to add your comments, and if you weren’t there, please feel free to add your comments – this way the conversation will continue…
Next time we’ll take up our discussion of Phyllis Tickle’s new book, The Great Emergence. See the February 23rd post below for more information…
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You know, I went back into an institutional Methodist church kicking and screaming as a compromise with my wife. I have actually found parts of it refreshing. It's closer to the mainline church and the the pastor is leading the church to a more missional framework. You still have certain parts of church hierarchy and bureacracy that seem to get in the way at times but it has been a surprising experience. As I told Clay while leaving Escape, the congregation is actually closer to a conservative evangelical mindset but the ministerial staff has helped find a niche by putting me in places to share a somewhat different way of thinking. Since my families' financial well-being doesn't depend on the church I'm free to share my convictions.
Sounds like God may have you right where He wants you to be. You can be the one who keeps challenging and stretching those who might be a bit too complacent. And you can enjoy the little victories along the way!
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