Sentences with phrase «call missional»

More on that later... but let's review and go back to Hoekendijk, as he will help us later to understand Newbigin, McGavran, and much of then conversation we call missional today.

We call it missional — they call it civic or civil society.

John Armstrong of Act3 Network, who recently participated in Catholic - Evangelical conversation at Moody Bible Institute, credits Mercersburg theology for his pursuit of what he calls missional - ecumenism.

Not exact matches

We'll be releasing a new Bible study this fall called, Sent: Living The Missional Nature Of The Church.

Well, we should be living missional lives, which means every day, wherever I am, whether I'm a student, whether I'm in the workforce, wherever I am at this season, that is the place, that is the field that God has called me to.

To be clear, I believe missional living is not just important, but fundamental to understanding the calling Scripture lays out for believers.

In this way, her young adult fiction was missional, even if she, or her publishers, never called it such.

Let's call these values «missional» even though not all house churches are missional.

That is where the missional activity of Israel is called to be — defiantly and buoyantly against every imperial definition of reality.

However, for such a time as this, the church is being called to a proactively biblical, missional and ethical response.

My understanding of «missional» derives from what I would call a «classical understanding» of mission: that women and men, through personal faith and conversion by the work of the Holy Spirit, would become disciples of Jesus Christ and responsible members of Christ's church.

We'll move ahead next week, but I have learned that I need to stop promising things on Monday... so this is now an occasional series that I will call «Meaning of Missional» and post other missiological things on Monday.

1) Consider what a «missional» church might look like, i.e., a church that recognizes «the essential nature and vocation of the church as God's called and sent people»....

With the term missional I emphasize the essential nature and vocation of the church as God's called and sent people.

Following Lesslie Newbigin and others, a church that is missional understands that God's mission calls and sends the church of Jesus Christ, locally and globally, to be a missionary church in its own society, in the cultures in which it finds itself, and globally among all peoples who do not yet confess Jesus as Lord.

Emergent leaders call for «missional re-understanding of Jesus - followership and Christ - focus imbued with passionate creativity and emotional authenticity,» whatever that means:

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