Missional Shift
This is just a great story! Christian Piatt writes,
“We had all had enough of the office for a while, so we went to the park to fly planes. Within a couple of minutes a gaggle of little kids from a nearby preschool wandered by and stopped to watch Mattias’ aeronautical skills with awe. Mattias let one of the preschoolers nearest to him give one of the planes a toss, and pretty soon, he was surrounded.
“A minute or two later, another group of kids joined them. Passersby were both stopping to watch the display of this eight-year-old pied piper amid the sea of little people, while also ducking and dodging the paper projectiles as one got hurled their way. It was a beautiful thing to watch. …
“It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But it took us getting out from behind our desks, going right outside our doors and connecting with the people right there around us to make something beautiful happen. Will any of those kids and their families end up coming to Sunday worship? Will Joe show up in the back pew next weekend? Probably not. But we made a connection. We walked around, noticed the people around us, recognized a need they had and offered what we had to help meet that need.
“That, to me at least, is what missional church is about. It’s what Jesus did for the bulk of his ministry, so if it was good enough for him, it’s good enough for me.”
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