Grassroots Healthy Reproducing Churches Podcast - Episode 4

Issue for Discussion: Turning Members Into Missionaries

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Quotes from Reggie McNeil's The Present Future:

“The first reformation was about freeing the church. The new Reformation is about freeing God’s people from the church (the institution). The original Reformation decentralized the church. The new Reformation decentralizes ministry. The former Reformation occurred when clergy were no longer willing to take marching orders for their ministry from the Pope. The current reformation finds church member no longer willing for clergy to script their personal spiritual ministry journey.” – p 43

If you think this isn't hard, think again.

This reluctance to connect with people outside the church is just further evidence that the church culture in North America is a cultural phenomenon in America that is more about a particular religious culture than about Jesus or his mission.

God took a beating in the modern world.

The church in North America is thoroughly modern. It has reduced its understanding of spirituality to numbers that can be reported.

An honest search for God would lead the church back into the world.

Adopting a missionary approach will require changing the scorecard.

Links:
Pittsburgh Project
New Life For Haiti
Reggie McNeal Videos

Guests:

Fran Leeman, pastor of the Lifespring Community Church in Plainfield, IL, a growing suburb of Chicago.

Lance Finley, Director of Youth and Family Ministries for the Churches of God General Conference, a denomination based in Findlay, OH

Bill Sloat, pastor of Faith Community Church, in Denver, PA, a small town in Lancaster country, PA, who also has a doctorate in church history, specifically revivalist history of the 1700’s and 1800's.

And I'm Brian Miller, pastor of The Crossover Church in Mattoon, IL, a town of about 20,000 in East Central Illinois.