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description: Missional Communities (MCs) are a hot topic right now in the church and many are excited about the potential of MCs to be a vehicle that allows the church to better live out its mission in the world. But if we embrace and implement MCs merely as a new program they wont live up to their potential and well be on to the next hot topic in a few months. MCs are helpful only if we use them as a vehicle that allows us to point ourselves towards amuch deeper issue: how we can learn to live our everyday lives as extended families on mission.We call this reality oikos (household in Greek) and thats actually what this book is about. Think of it like this: an MC is a great vehicle but vehicles are supposed to take you somewhere. The destination the vehicle of MC takes us to is oikos. We believe oikos is something the Spirit of God is doing in this time to restore the churchs ability to function fruitfully in discipleship and mission the way the early church did publicly living out this is the make-or-break issue for the Western church. We simply will not see Gods dream forthe world come true unless we learn how to function as extended families on mission. And MCs are a great vehicle that helps jump-start that culture-shifting process.We began using MCs over 25 years ago and have seen both breakthrough and failure. Thisthe Western world in leading growing and multiplying MCs.The great thing is that it isnt actually that complicated and God will give us the power to do it. This isnt a task reserved for church leaders pastors or expertsits for everyone! The goal is to learn how to function as an extended family on mission. We really believe this is something everyone can learn to do and this book is about making the first step in that direction.
language: English
title: Leading Missional Communities
publisher: 3DM