Yep...
From Jared Wilson:
To the cultural Christian, there is nothing attractive about a small
church that expects relational community, practices regular
neighborhood service, highlights the cost of discipleship in every
message, has a minimalist menu of programs to partake from, and gives
most of its money away (precluding a "nice" facility and assorted bells
and whistles). But I want to reach them. All Christians are family. I
love the big-C Church dearly.
There are some who would say the
missional communities should just write off their attractional brothers
and sisters and focus on reaching the lost. I defy false dichotomies.
And while I never poach (I've never invited members of other churches
to mine before they themselves have first expressed interest in
visiting), I pray and preach AND BLOG and try to live a life of witness
so that my churched brothers and sisters will begin to crave the gospel
and gospel-centrism in their congregations.
The more churched
converts gospel-centrism receives -- we're talking about revival here,
by the way -- the greater impact for the kingdom among the lost and
"least of these" there will be, in the Bible Belt and beyond.
Read the rest here.
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