Tonight we were asked to challenge the Montecito Covenant Church to be a missional community of faith, and I\u2019d like to share the outline of our talk. First, though, I\u2019m impressed with this community of faith \u2014 its piety, its resilience, and its stability. The best preaching is not about saying something new but reminding us of something old in fresh ways. Tonight we were asked to challenge the Montecito Covenant Church to be a missional community of faith, and I\u2019d like to share the outline of our talk. First, though, I\u2019m impressed with this community of faith \u2014 its piety, its resilience, and its stability. The best preaching is not about saying something new but reminding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missional"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nImagine a missional community was our challenge to do together:
\nImagine Grace <\/em>at work to flow from God through the community into the wider community. (Genesis 1\u20132, Eikons: created, cracked, and designed to be Christ-like in the form of a community.)
\nImagine Strength <\/em>at work to empower simplicity in focus. Deut 6:5, the Hebrew word for \u201cstrength\u201d (me\u2019od<\/em>), and the 5 L\u2019s of love: listen, look, learn, link and begin locally.
\nImagine Generosity <\/em>at work to create resources in motion toward others. Here we focused on 2 Cor 8:2, 13-14, and 20 \u2014 generosity, equity, and abundance.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"