Missional Church?

The gospel is always a stumbling block. But, the fact that so many people reject the gospel before they get to hear the gospel is a painful reality.

In our well-meaning bid to "make the Bible and God relevant," we often marginalize ourselves from the very culture we seek to reach. The Bible and God are relevant in this culture and in every other culture. He and His gospel are relevant! Always!

We are the roadblocks to relevancy, not the Bible...

We live in a way that makes God seem irrelevant, but He is not to blame...

A missional church with a Great Commission passion will care about relevance--making the message clear...

I think part of the challenge is to keep "missional" from dying as a buzzword but flourishing as an idea that presses believers forward into God's work. "Missional" is not a new word for cutting edge and contemporary. And, it should not be used as the adjective for every ministry so we can pretend we have missional music, missional quilting, and missional lighting. Instead, we need to ensure that "missional" is a driving force for how we live out God's work...