We learned from Ruben Duran that the learnings from growing churches include knowing and being connected to the community in which you do mission and not working alone. How easy is it to do mission without being connected to your community and by doing it alone? In some ways you might say impossible because if you are disconnected to your community and doing your church life alone you probably aren’t doing mission. You are doing religious things perhaps, but not mission. In other words, in order to do mission it’s not only important to be connected and be doing it in partnerships, it’s part of what the thing (mission) itself is! Good stuff. Thanks Ruben!
Bishop Ed reminds us in his Bishop’s Report that we need to stir up our missional imaginations. Yes!
One of Together in Mission’s guiding principles is Innovation. Yes!
Now then, when we put this connection to community, partnerships, missional imaginations and innovation all together…..what is the result? To me is looks like Jesus Christ risen from the dead! It looks like life breathed back into us. It looks like life itself!
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