{"id":64205,"date":"2016-08-12T00:04:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T05:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?p=64205"},"modified":"2016-08-01T07:51:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T12:51:58","slug":"rethinking-kingdom-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2016\/08\/12\/rethinking-kingdom-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking: Kingdom Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The question is this: <strong>When you are kingdom mission church? What would you add? Or what do you think is the single most important sign of a kingdom mission church?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(An outline approach to rethinking kingdom mission, or You are a kingdom mission church when\u2026)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>When the cruciform character of King Jesus shapes every major dimension of your local church<em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When your church perceives itself as a people redeemed and rescued from the world and evil by king Jesus.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">When your church knows it is governed by Lord Jesus.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When your church challenges the lordless lords of our culture and country. (Barth\u2019s expression)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When your church seeks to be a kingdom kind of community.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When your church is known above all for loving one another and loving your neighbors<em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When your church establishes justice and peace within the local fellowship and then extends that justice and peace into the community.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When your church cannot avoid being people of \u201cgood works\u201d in the public sector.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When your church becomes \u201csacred space\u201d or \u201ckingdom space\u201d in your community.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When your church\u2019s spiritual disciplines foster these themes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>W<em>hat spiritual practices or disciplines do we need to practice to foster this kind of kingdom mission church? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question is this: When you are kingdom mission church? 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