Going Missional

So, the house church meeting last night was everything we hoped for and more (thanks to Emily's amazing spread, Haley's surreal buffalo chicken dip, and all the other goodies people brought). We did a real live blog demonstration showing off the fancy information retrieval process of going to lifepointnews.blogspot.com and getting all the latest info. Then, we buckled our seat belts and went to the fully active but not yet completed website at thatissochurch.org, which will be the true hub of interweb activity for our church. We even did a live run through of the online giving process.

Then we got to the Bible. We focused on one short passage from Matthew 28, which is commonly referred to as "The Great Commission":

And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

We're on a mission people. We've been given a job to do, which is part of the specific working out of Loving God and Loving Neighbor. We're supposed to tell other people about the magnificent gift of Christ's life and death, through which he satisfied God's wrath against nasty sinners like me and made a way for us to be at peace with Him again. And after we tell them about the love of God, if they surrender to Him, we make them an official part of the Fam and walk alongside them as we all grow into better and better people. So here at LP, we're going to take this mission thing serious. Yes, we actually intend to do this.

To get us ready for said missional activity, we're going to do an 8 week study using The Tangible Kingdom: A Primer to help us further understand the idea of being missional and start the habits of reaching out and living in "incarnation community". The books have been ordered and will be passed out next week at our "Get out and do something" Party (details are coming shortly). They are $15. If you can't swing that right now, no problem. It's on us. Just let us know. You can preview the book here.

Check the website out. Check the book out. Make plans to hang out with us this Sunday night for a couple hours.