Mondays are for Discussion
Ed Stetzer led a tremendous discussion on missional leadership over the last five weeks at his blog (http://edstetzer.com). If you want a basic class on the “missional conversation” go back and read some, all, or selected posts at Ed’s site on the last five Missional Mondays Posts (Part 1-5). Don’t forget the comments section. There are some really helpful thinking including a very helpful summary by Dr. Marten Vissor, a missionary in Thailand in Part 5.
Now, I suspect that many of you will not go and read the posts that I just suggested. That’s okay. It probably would take more time than most of you reading here have time for. So let’s begin a new discussion in this circle of the blogosphere.
Read my previous post with it’s five statements (sentences) about missional leaders. (see it here: http://www.chosenrebel.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/missional-thoughts-on-the-weekend).
- What would you add?
- What does missional leadership mean to you?
- What does missional leadership look like in the neighborhood?
Missional leadership requires pastors to live in the neighborhoods where there congregations live and serve, and to be engaged in the broader life and development of the community. This presupposes that churches are local rather than regional.
Missional leadership means seeing the lost and the community as the “neighbors” God has called us to love and reconcile to Him, and leading the congregation to do likewise.
Missional leadership does not mean presbuteroi becoming deaconoi.
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Excellent post over at http://wp.me/pq1Ma-bu that summarizes and gives some great clarity to Ed Stetzer’s question. Worth reading.
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The following came in via email and I thought it worth passing on because the writer is struggling with many of the issues that our new church in Mundelein/Vernon Hills will address. But also because my brothers questions and observations go to the heart of some of the missional conversation. (Bold Emphasis has been added. I have also withheld names and specific location information.)
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Hey brother. Good to hear from you and the great work God is doing there in the island. Your experience has so much to teach us. I look forward to your contributions here on the blog for the growing community here.
In four weeks you have grown from 9 to 20, already experiencing the need to multiply, and have excited leaders.
Two questions:
1. How is preaching being shaped in your house church?
2. How are your people on mission to the neighbors?
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