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4Sep, 2008

I have pointed here before, but I do think Marko is onto something here and not just because I have a little skin in the game. Where can we find discipleship, discipleship, discipleship if not well within these two simple assertions:

Communion: True community is life-on-life, whole life, eating together, sharing journeys, working through difficulties, wrestling with praxis (theology in practice), accountability, safety, openness, serving side-by-side, cultivating shared passion and holy discontent, mutuality, and a host of other variables. . . Communion is true community with Christ in the mix. Communion is both the essence and the action of a Christ community.
Mission: (It is) joining up with the mission of God in the world . . . Mission, in this context, starts with the assumption that God is already actively working on earth, bringing out God’s redemptive, restorative work, bringing the transformation of all creation. A missional ministry seeks to discern, observe and identify things and people close to the heart of God, where God is already at work, and joins up with the work of God already in progress.

Again, in the future, we will unabashedly be able to evaluate our efforts regarding how well WE (the whole of a church community in full collaboration with their partner, the Holy Spirit) are living as the Body of Christ (Communion) living, explicit, and fruitful in this world living out the great commission to go and make disciples of all the world.

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