The Future of the Church | Future Church | Week 1
Some Shifts in our Church Remodel:
- Less attraction more mission.
- Less big more small.
- Less new more old.
- Less telling more training.
- Less counting attendance more counting discipleship outcomes.
- Less slick more authentic.
- Less performance more presence.
- Less noise more space.
- Less solo more family.
Why Change?
- The Internal Problem: We’ve replaced discipleship with assimilation.
- The external problem: Christianity is in crisis in America.
Cascading Sending
- God sends Jesus. (John 3:17)
- God and Jesus send the Spirit. (John 15:26-27)
- God, Jesus, and the Spirit send us (John 20:21-22)
- God, Jesus, and the Spirit send the Church. (Matthew 28:18-20)
John 17:14-19
- The old slogan: Christians should be IN the world but not OF the world.
2 Problems:
- the wrong WORD
- the wrong ORDER
- A better slogan: Christians are not OF the world, but have been sent INTO the world.
