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Our call was for people to live an intentional kingdom life around a sense of communion—connecting with God—and a sense of mission, being a blessing to people. We focused on the idea of inclusive community.
We would provide a place of belonging for anybody regardless of their disoriented theology or their sexual orientation or the color of their skin or their religious background or their behavioral miscues.
Christ died to make things right, to make them as they should be. Restored. When we participate in God's restorational justice, we begin to realize that the Gospel is much bigger than any weekend service project.
The Hebrew word for “justice” is tsedaqah, which means “the kind of justice that delivers from slavery and oppression and restores community relationships.”
Justice is most often paired with righteousness in the Old Testament. The Hebrew word for “righteousness” is misphat and means...
The foundation of a gospel-centered, missional life is the decision to offer to God our plans in exchange for his plans. We must allow the truth about who God is, what he has done, and our new identity in Christ to inform all of life.
Learning to speak the good news of the gospel into everyday life and situations–first to ourselves, and then with others–is called "Gospel Fluency".
At the time there was no missional or incarnational conversation in the American church. I’d never even heard of the word incarnational. Or bi-vocational, for that matter. But looking back, that’s what we were doing. In fact, we looked back 25 years later wondering how come it was always so easy to fill our house with people?
"When people come to faith through your life they’re being drawn to a way of life—drawn through people to Jesus. They’re not being drawn to tradition or doctrine or theology."
