“Being more missional might actually mean doing fewer things. There is a Latin American proverb that says, “If you don’t know where you’re coming from, and if you don’t know where you’re going, then any bus will do.” Some congregations are clearly riding too many busesl What they need is not more flurry, but more focus. Becoming disciplined about being a missional church can provide such a focus.[16”
― Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture
― Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture
“Many exiles leave the mainstream church and engage in the kinds of things we’ve looked at already: living an authentic life, struggling for global justice, showing compassion, pursuing vocation as a way of doing God’s work. But often they do it alone, imagining that it’s either the conventional church or no church at all.”
― Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture
― Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture
“I had gained an insight. At great expense, but it was real and important: I was not a writer. What writers had, I did not have. I fought against this insight, I told myself I might be able to have what writers had, it might be attainable provided I persisted for long enough, while knowing in fact this was only a consolation. - Karl Ove Knausgaard, after his year at the Bergen Writing Academy”
― Min kamp 5
― Min kamp 5
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