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Plumb Line - The Week Is As Important As The Weekend
Missional or Attractional?
The answer is yes.
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (p.
83).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
Is building an audience the same thing as growing a church?
Is “attendance increased” the same things as “mission accomplished”?
George W. Bush-May 1, 2003
Do churches that proclaim “success” when they gather large audiences make the same mistake?
Do they confuse a milestone en route to the mission with the end goal of that mission?
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (p.
83).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (p.
84).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
To be clear, I’m not against celebrating large weekend numbers.
New Testament writers do that regularly.
They often tell us when Jesus or the apostles gathered large crowds and sometimes exactly how many people were in those crowds.
Twice Luke celebrates the specific number of baptisms the church performed on a given day.
Jesus’ “good shepherd” in was so in touch with the number of his flock that he knew immediately when just one lamb had gone missing!
And, of course, there’s a whole book in the Old Testament called . . .
well . . .
Numbers.
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (p.
84).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
What happens during the week establishes the difference between a disciple and an attender.
Fewer and fewer lost people are moseying their way into our weekend services.
Thus, equipping disciples to reproduce outside the church, during the week, is becoming vastly more important than having a great weekend show.
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (p.
84).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (p.
84).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
As our society becomes more and more “post-Christian,” training members to “go” will be far more effective than inviting the community to “come.”
This brings us back to the great commission.
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (pp.
84-85).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
A Holy Huddle
For nearly half a century now, church leaders have debated the question of which approach is more effective: attractional or missional.
Just for clarity,
By ‘attractional’ I mean ministries designed so that unbelievers will be drawn into the church building to hear the gospel.
(Come And See)
and
By ‘missional’ I mean equipping Christians to carry the gospel (and its good works) to unbelievers outside the church.
(Go And Tell)
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (p.
85).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
This is really not an either/or issue as much as a what “accomplishes the mission” issue.
History of Missional
The word missional originates from a mid-twentieth-century missionary named Lesslie Newbigin.
Serving among the Indian people in South Asia, Newbigin was frustrated with his converts, because most of them assumed that it was his job to spread the gospel, not theirs.
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (p.
85).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
Every believer is a Spirit empowered missionary to the world they inhabit.
Attractional (Come and See)
She was overwhelmed.
Gentile court of the temple
1 Peter
Attractional things are not bad.
But, nor are they the goal.
They may be tools to accomplish the goal but the goal is to make disciples.
What is the Goal?
To empower believers to recognize, surrender to and implement the gifts they have been given in service of the Lord to make disciples by making known His Gospel.
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