Friday, August 22, 2008

"missional" should be implied

One word that bugs me among Christians is "missional". Christianity itself is missional. "Go and make disciples". "Faith without works is dead". Christianity is bowing one's entire being and life to the Holy God. Don't bother to tell me a ministry or church is "missional", although that's nice to hear. I'm missional. You're missional. Together, we are even more missional.

People like to point out that God doesn't despise creation, in order to emphasize that sex isn't repulsive in its proper time and place. I remind them that it also means that belief in God isn't only mystical or mental. Jesus stated that the kingdom of heaven had come. We are part of it now. We live in it now. Christianity has physical consequences. It can't help but be missional.

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