living missionally in europe
A brief article on intentional missional living by Floyd McClung, written for the European context. Link to full piece is below.

There is much talk these days about missional church. I am more interested in missional living. When we speak of the church we can easily point out the church’s faults and irrelevance but exclude ourselves from the criticism. It is easy to find fault with “the church” but much more difficult when we accept that we are the church.

Accepting Jesus’ invitation to “go and make disciples” gets at the heart of what church is all about. That is missional living. When I think of making disciples I think of it in a holistic sense of being involved in every area of a persons’ life.

Missional living is about investing in the lives of other people. It is not a program. It is certainly more than organized outreach activities. Being a missional person means intentionally building bridges to other people – for the sake of them knowing Jesus and discovering what it means to be a fully alive, free human being. It is an attitude that says, “I will invest my life in others for the sake of Christ and his purposes on earth.” It means I will live that way in every sphere of life and every day of the week.

Link to full article.

posted by alexander @ 11:21 AM    2 comments

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whats the latest, from your perspective, on simple church in the UK?

Scott in Vegas
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By  Scott in Vegas, at 7:59 PM  

hi scott, we are presently in africa so would prefer to wait until I am back in europe to reply to that (Oct/NOv).but if anyone else out there picks this up maybe you could answer on my behalf. my only observation would be that the numbers of people involved in using simple church is certainly not diminishing and activity appears to be steadily growing. there are now 2 formal training/equipping courses specifically for simple church planters in the UK. 12 months ago there were none.

By  alexander, at 1:49 PM  

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