Building Missional Culture
Core Value | Love Neighbor
Forgive what may seem like an obvious statement: the building of missional culture - a culture that reaches outward to the lost and the least - requires missional builders. Culture is made by individuals, whether it is intentional or not. It must be forged, articulated, in both large group and 1:1 settings, with our words and by a life of example.
The three resources below stretch across several different aspects of missional culture, including individual disciple-making, God’s heart for the nations, and vocational/societal impact.
Discipleship is for the entire church
Matt Fransisco pens a short but power-packed call to all believers to live as disciple-makers in their unique contexts.
Article (5 min)
reflection questions After reading
Consider your answer to this question: are spiritual gifts primarily given to build up/edify up those inside the church or outside of it? Use the article to construct and defend your response.
Assess the level of individual disciple-making happening inside of your HC. Do some of the barriers that Fransisco mentions ring true for your crew? How can you lead in a way that displays disciple-making as an “all believers” activity rather an a “some believers” activity?
Shepherding Your Church to Obey the Great Commission
David Platt’s talk at the 2019 TGC Conference hums with conviction, probing the Scriptures and challenging hearers on this key question: How desperate are you to see dead people come to life?
Podcast (55 min)
reflection questions After reading
How equipped are you to make disciples without dependence on performances, programs, and professionals? How does Platt’s use of Ezekiel 36 and what you know about the early church in Acts inform your answer?
Following from the question above: in your assessment, how equipped are the members of your HC to make disciples without dependence on performances, programs, and professionals? What takeaway can you pull from Platt’s talk to cast vision over their ability to do that with simply the Word of God and the Spirit of God?
Fast Forward to Mission: Frameworks for a Life of Impact
This short e-book sourced from missiologist Alan Hirsch’s longer work, Right Here Right Now, invites readers to envision and embark on everyday mission that makes a difference, regardless of their situation, vocation, or location.
Book
reflection questions After reading
Which framework for missional Christianity (Ch. 1 / pgs. 9-31) most resonated with you?
How can you apply this framework inside of your House Church’s unique context?