What does it mean to think and act missionally?
How is missional living connected to Christian story?
How might a missional life begin now?
Bluegrass music.
Understanding Bluegrass music...
Is to understand the Apalachian Mountains.
The land in the mountains were cheap, most immigrants chose to live there. They brought their instruments, and started making new music. Influenced over time by the environment, politics, war, change.
Anykind of music carries all of this things. Having stories of their own...
What's your soundtrack of your own life?
Pop? Rock? Hip hop? Country? Latin? Christian?
We learn to be students of our mind/process/think/decisions.
What's up with the music?
Act I:
Missional Impulse: Incarnation
Begins with God, His son's death. His coming into the world.
Self-giving, grace, mercy.
He calls us into His misson, to embody for the same thing for the sake of the world.
We understand our identity, our vocation, primarily as the people of the world to give ourselves for the world.
Act II: Knowing the Community.
Missional Impulse: Meeting God in the Stranger
Men are strangers as called or describe in the Bible
Like Abraham and Sarah in the wilderness.
We sent into the world as someone for another.
As how we treat others, we are acting on what the Bible says that Jesus would treat you.
Conflict of Interest.
Act III: The Wilderness?
Slowing down...
You can't pay attention, simplify, be content with wshat you have.
Missonal Impulse: Meeting God at the Margin.
This notion is where Christians can find themselves in the 21st century.
Powerlessness will cause us to notice what we have.
Acts IV: New Jerusalem
To discover at the start, to have a vision of a goal/desire to live out for God.
How to make a difference...
Missional Impulse: Imagining God's Future into Reality.
To not thread the same path as Christians did before but to dream, to offer their lives for the world.
To pray thy kingdom come and thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
The End.
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