Person Stretching Me Lately
Joel Holm:
I have a read a lot of books and listened to a lot of sermons on Mission. Joel’s perspective is unique and relevant. Joel uses new concepts, a new vocab, new strategies to fulfill the 2000 year old Commission by our Lord to make disciples. I highly recommend his book ‘Church Centred Mission’- Transforming the church to change the world.
I was blessed to finally meet Joel on Monday. (Thanks Phil). I came away after the meeting challenged, and stretched in my thinking in making the paradigm shift.
Some thoughts:
- It is not we don’t know but what we do know that hinders us.
- Church focus more on worship rather than discipleship. The great commission is making disciples not awesome worship services
- Have a thy Kingdom come perspective in the church.
- Vocation / Career is a missionfield. Every disciple of Jesus is a missionary.
- Every skill was needed in Rebuilding the Jerusalem walls – not just the pastors.
- Principle: Receive a prophet – receive a prophets reward. Receive business person, receive a musician, etc…….
- Typically 1% of the congregation is involved in mission. 99% see themselves as supporters of the 1%. The BIG question for me as a pastor is how can I get the 99% to believe that their calling is the same as the 1% and motivate them to be missional in their Kingdom vocation.
- Use Kingdom Initiators not just ministry leaders
- Ask the right questions and you will get the right answers
- Think:
- Strategic
- Spiritual
- Worship
- Relational
- Speak new Language:
- Steward of Influence,
- Conscious competent,
- Kingdom Initiator,
- Ordination of all nations,
- Kingdom cross pollination,
- Kingdom ministers,
Motherbear LizH is discussing. 
Motherbear LizH 1:35 am on October 28, 2009 Permalink |
Hi Lui
I enjoy reading your blog…simple, enquiring and reflects your love of Jesus. I enjoyed this one too but kind of lost me with the new language (perhaps needed more detail/defining). My question to Joel Holm is the proverbial… why reinvent the wheel? or why ‘fix’ what’s not broke?
Concepts and fads about how to do Missions come and go – believe me! When the hype and frothy cleverness subsides ….the Mission remains by definition unchanged and I would argue so does the prescribed method.
Missions to me………
I was challenged recently when I heard someone say,
“We (believers) are not called to perfume the sewer, but to pull people out from it”
(sorry about the mental picture with that statement)
The psalmist puts it more eloquently in Psalm 40
“He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.”
I am choked with raw emotion and thanksgiving when I read and re-read that- let us remember that horrible pit when we’re in the company of our friends, families and enemies we do life with. Preach Jesus, teach the Word.