As I think about mission, missional living, and accomplishing the mission God has for CrossView, all churches, and all Christians (namely making disciples of the Lord Jesus), I came across this nike commercial posted below. Watch it. As I did, I thought, "I'd be like one of those guys who's objective is to retrieve the ball, yet I'd be admiring the view, the security systems, the guards, the skills of the other guys, or just sitting on the side resting." That's how I feel sometimes as I think about how God sent us to Los Angeles to make disciples and establish a church planting church. With the simplicity of that mission (like retrieving a ball), I find myself wanting and actually doing all kinds of things that don't tie to the mission. I don't consciously tie all my reading to the mission. I don't consciously connect my every interaction with my volunteering at Shatto Recreation Center with the mission. I don't see my greeting people at the gym when we play basketball as woven into the mission. And so I end up slowing the mission or worse, displeasing the Lord who died for us, rose for us, intercedes for us, accompanies us, empowers us, and sent us. The lesson I learned: STAY ON TASK.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Mark Driscoll on Missional Living and Church
This is something that we as CrossView need to think about and pray over and begin to implement in our lives. We discussed this in our Sunday gathering (3/22) and part of the exhortation was to watch this video and think and pray over what God is leading us to do as a community, as families, and individuals.
Who's in your relational network? What are some things you can do to spend more time with those people without adding huge blocks of time to your schedule?
Related resource: What is the Missional Life? by Eric Simmons
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Review Acts 23-24 (3-15-09)
Review of Acts 23-24 - (3-15-09) from CrossView Church on Vimeo.
The teaching this Sunday focused on the story of Acts 23-24. PJ taught that (1) we need to trust God's sovereignty for specific circumstances as we live on God's mission and (2) we must testify to the gospel in every God-given opportunity. We saw that the gospel ministry is driven by the resurrection of the just and the unjust, it is rooted in the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament), and it concerns faith in Christ Jesus which included righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment. Paul was relentless because he did not count his success as how high a conversion rate on his gospelizing, but how clear and loving and often he communicated the gospel.
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