THE TALK
The talk began by discussing "What does it mean to be a movement"?
Examples of movements were shared. They included:
The Ancient Celts
The Reformation Era Moravians
The Wesleyan movement
Mark of a movement #1--
Embracing the call to REPENT
- In order to learn, we need to unlearn
- Must embrace the need to begin again
Mark of a movement #2--
(my shorthand here) PRIESTHOOD OF ALL BELIEVERS
- Every believer is a church planter
- Everyone is the seed of a movement
- Every believer has the potential for church in them
- Every cell has the DNA of the body of Christ in it
Movement killers in the church
1. Non-discipleship of the church (what Dallas Willard calls the Great Omission)
- You can do more wit 12 disciples than 1200 consumers of religion
- Christianity without discipleship is a discipleship without Christ
- If you don't want to hang out with Jesus now, what are you going to do with eternal life
- Problem: The Catholic attempts to institutionalize grace through sacramental theology
- Church needs to be always reforming
2. The clergy-laity divide
- Creates dependency
3. We lead too much with service
4. By supressing the agency of women
"The greatest truths are remembered not discovered or invented"
THE TAKEAWAY
The pastor-centered model of ministry will not work if the church is to reach the world today. The Spirit's work is too big to be managed or contained by one executive.
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