{"id":927,"date":"2006-04-30T01:10:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T01:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/04\/montecito-and-missional-living.html"},"modified":"2006-04-30T01:10:03","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T01:10:03","slug":"montecito-and-missional-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/04\/montecito-and-missional-living.html","title":{"rendered":"Montecito and Missional Living"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight we were asked to challenge the Montecito Covenant Church to be a missional community of faith, and I’d like to share the outline of our talk. First, though, I’m impressed with this community of faith — 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.
\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 1–2, 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 “strength” (me’od<\/em>), and the 5 L’s 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 — generosity, equity, and abundance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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