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Thursday, January 18, 2007Missional Community and Work
 The picture above is of a sculpture at Launde Abbey. Yes we were there again last Sunday, no tree climbing this time though. It was another Alpha away day, and another amazing time. There are times when you just HAVE to beleive in God! ;o). The rest of the week has proceeded fairly normally - loads of great stuff going on: last night another 'mum' from our kids club "JFC" said she wanted to do Alpha. She came to the History of Christmas Dinner, and was so amazed by the evening, it was great fun, she said, and i didn't get preached at at all!! Honestly, I said, that just isn't our style... Yesterday I was at King's Bible College to take my first Tutorial of the year. We are planning to work through Chalkies book "The Lost Message of Jesus" [always fun because of the controversary a small bit of it raised...]. Anyway, this week we had no directed topic planned in. So we discussed this: "Our Theology [what we think about God] should influence our Missiology [what we think about mission] which should influence our Eccleisiology [what we think about the church and do as church]. If we reverse any of these we end up on the wrong track". It was a really good discussion, despite nearly loosing a couple of people along the way. What do you think about that? Anyway, on talking about missiology, we were trying to work out where mission starts. I think it is imperative that we understand the mission starts with God [missio dei] AND that mission starts with the activity of God in creation, i.e. not after the fall. Plus, i think it is important that we see people as having a mission [a purpose] in creation. For this we looked a little more in depth at Genesis 2:2-5. I remembered looking at this during our "mission month" a few years ago [remember that?]. I particularly remember the shock when I suggested that work was there before the fall!! lol! I relooked at my brief notes form then, and decided to share them with you! Man's mission/purpose in creation: relationship with God, relationship with each other [community] and Co-creativity with God:Posted by: Mark | 5:40 pm |
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