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The missional church movement is a sign that we increasingly feel the call to impact our communities, which is a good thing. But, says Alan J. Roxburgh, these conversations still prioritize church success over mission—i.e., how can being missional grow my church? But to focus on such questions misses the point. Missional calls you to reenter your neighborhood and community to discover what the...

them, as they were reading about their Lord’s journey to Jerusalem and death, to come on this story? What would it have been saying to their questions about the crisis of identity and meaning they faced? In Luke 9:51–56 Jesus and the disciples encounter opposition from a Samaritan village. They were not welcomed because “he was heading for Jerusalem.” Old animosities flare up. The disciples respond with the same old formula from a language house that viscerally reacts to Samaritans: “Call down fire
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