Introducing the Missional Church: What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Become One (Biblia.com)

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Ours is a post-Christian culture, making it necessary for church leaders to think like missionaries right here at home. In Introducing the Missional Church, two leading voices in the missional movement provide an accessible introduction, explaining how the movement developed, why it’s important, and how churches can become more missional.

It looks at two specific dams shaping the churches today—the modern and the postmodern. Table 2 Modernity Is about Erasing Origins Postmodernity Is about Borrowing Origins Reduces mystery to history, chance, or preference. Reduces mystery to spiritual options and experiences. Replaces memory with: Progress Future Next Frontier Replaces memory with nostalgia, borrowing bits and pieces from every kind of tradition to assemble its own brief experience in the present moment. Recasts mission as self-actualization.

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