Previous posts have looked at what it means to shift from being Church focused to becoming Kingdom focused and shifting from maintenance leadership to missional leadership. All of these efforts are in an effort to explain what it means to be a “cultural architect” in the life of the church. This installment invites us to look at something that every successful group in the history of the world has understood. We all know the story of the invention of the light bulb, specifically the number of failed attempts it took
Culture Making
MAINTENANCE LEADERSHIP TO MISSIONAL LEADERSHIP
Over the next several posts I would like to invite the community to join the call of the Christian to be a creator of culture – specifically the culture of the
SHIFTING FROM CHURCH TO KINGDOM
Over the next several posts, I would like to invite the community to join the call of the Christian to be a creator of culture – specifically the culture of the
Many ministries in the Christian world have an evangelical component and this is essential to the Christian call. However, evangelism sometimes is boiled down to “getting more members to join the church”. Which worked very well when the dominate culture was primarily Christian.However, this is no longer the case. The amount of diversity in the dominate culture has removed Christianity from is seat of prominence. We no longer have the luxury to assume everyone knows the Christian story and wants/needs to join a local church. Therefore, churches today can seek new members, but churches must recognize that the Church is not what we are called to create. God in Jesus through the Holy Spirit calls us to make Disciples. I wonder what ministries we would create if we did not worry about getting more members but making disciples? What ministries would we stop? I wonder if we stopped focusing on keeping an institution alive and focused, as in the book of Acts, on helping God create the Kingdom. What would that culture look like?