Ø We distance ourselves from sinner’s instead of distancing ourselves from sin…this is wrong
Ø Part of our mission is to be who we are, engaged in culture….
Ø If the 1950’s come back…most churches are ready to go….
Ø We have to live as sent people instead of store front’s dispensing religious goods and services
Ø We can find ourselves locked into a sub-culture and not advancing in a mission
Ø It’s no longer about engaging culture, but instead engaging culture’s
Ø People don’t want to believe that in our churches different expression’s can make way for Jesus to operate
Ø To many churches are more in love with their preferences than they are with lost people
Ø In order to be missional we must:
o Contend
o Contextualize
o Cooperate
Ø When we equate change with compromise we begin to put theological VALUE on our own PREFERENCES
Ø People, churches, and denominations never change until the pain of staying the same grows greater than the pain of change
Ø Most of us live the same as the world but look different…when mission says that we look similar but live different
good stuff!!