Thanks for sharing my details. I am happy to engage as you continue to discern how to be wise and gentle. Be free to send an email my way when you have the space for further dialogue. Grace and peace, Mike
When I consider the three outcomes, I appreciate the focus of deepening, growing and connecting. Particularly, for outcome 1, I am wrestling if “invite” is more fitting than introduce. We want Jesus to encounter people and come home in hearts and cultures to awaken and make life full. There is an amiss if we stay at the level of introductions. Our desire is to have Jesus enter in and host the feast.
This series has pierced deeply my unbiblical assumptions. Concerning your first question in this post, I think we need to be steered back to Jesus’ command: “Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” Are we willing to shed our rights for the sake of another? Are we willing to level at the table to become learners like everybody else? We must keep our love for another warm as we love the Lord our God and obediently respond to Christ's commission from our backyard and beyond. Our tendency to abstract the Great Commission from great commandment one and two is unbiblical and hinders our capacity to be missional WITH.
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Hello Larry and Rev. Kamps,
Thanks for sharing my details. I am happy to engage as you continue to discern how to be wise and gentle. Be free to send an email my way when you have the space for further dialogue. Grace and peace, Mike
Posted in: Organizational Framework for a New Mission Agency
When I consider the three outcomes, I appreciate the focus of deepening, growing and connecting. Particularly, for outcome 1, I am wrestling if “invite” is more fitting than introduce. We want Jesus to encounter people and come home in hearts and cultures to awaken and make life full. There is an amiss if we stay at the level of introductions. Our desire is to have Jesus enter in and host the feast.
Posted in: Are You Already a Missionary?
This series has pierced deeply my unbiblical assumptions. Concerning your first question in this post, I think we need to be steered back to Jesus’ command: “Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” Are we willing to shed our rights for the sake of another? Are we willing to level at the table to become learners like everybody else? We must keep our love for another warm as we love the Lord our God and obediently respond to Christ's commission from our backyard and beyond. Our tendency to abstract the Great Commission from great commandment one and two is unbiblical and hinders our capacity to be missional WITH.