What DOES the Church need? (Part II)
Monday, June 05, 2006
I guess it’s about time I reply to the comments on my last post. First of all I want to thank all you who commented - some very interesting thoughts to say the least. One thing I found interesting was the themes of discipleship, love and community that arose. Here’s a quick point form summary of some of the things I picked up on. Before I summarize I need to throw in this clause: I know I am missing stuff in this recap - if you feel I missed something really important then I am sorry and please feel free to let me know what I missed.
- The church needs a revolution
- People with a theological understanding
- People with cultural understanding
- Discipleship
- External focus rather than internal
- To get rid of comfort zones
- A positive attitude of the church that is willing to critique honestly
- Love
- Lovers of the church
- Christians who Christians 24/7
- Bridges between ages & cultures
- Discipleship/mentoring
- Workers and harvesters
- 1 Cor. 13
- Accountability
- People using their gifts
- To know and teach the Gospel and its entire message
- To understand salvation/eternity as now
- A willingness to contextualize our ministries
- Parents discipling children
- To refocus on scripture and then base our ministry on what we are called to do
- To meet in twos and threes
- A positive attitude - less cynicism
- A contagious love
- An inclusive community
- Honesty and openness
- Humility
- To be in the world even though we are not of it
- Workers
- Disciple makers
- To love those outside the church
- To love by deed
- Prayer
- To love each other
- To love God
- To live out forgiveness
That’s all I have for now, just a simple summary. Yes, I do have an opinion but you will have to wait a bit longer for it. In the mean time feel free to summarize further or add any points I missed. And if that's not enough for discussion here's another question... How might a Bible College (let's say... a school like Bethany College) help the Church with these areas of need?
Uh, u forgot about people to do my dishes and vacuming.
All I'm going to say, Dave, is that you are the one who collects comic books. (FYI people, this has nothing to do with this blog posting)
Dave,
Congrats on getting the new position at the school. I hope you have a more valuable time with your family.
Where are you? We miss you!!
Dave hey, you did an excellent job leading the worship!!! It was REALLY good...I really liked it...Great JOB!!!
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