November 17, 2008
The church I attended while in Madison had the mission statement, “building a community to reach a community.” I really like it. I am reminded of 1 Peter 2 which says that we are being built up as a spiritual house with Christ as our cornerstone. What precious community.
Personally, I love my community in Quad 4 and can echo with the psalmist, “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell in unity!” We are enjoying “building a community” eventually to “reach a community.” But what if, together, we could do both now?
As an example, Messiah has an inspiring off-campus housing program in which students minister in and to their local community.
http://www.messiah.edu/community/interest_housing.html
What if a group of students chose to invest in the churches and schools of hurting communities just north of here? What if, year after year, students passed and picked up the baton for a sustainable presence of salt and light? It’d be a discipleship house. We’d be enjoying and glorifying God by building a community to reach a community.
Are you interested? Let’s discuss.
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I think this is awesome. It would really be a different seminary experience to base your life in the community outside of TEDS. Shopping local, becoming "a regular" somewhere, and engaging with neighbors--this is the way to bring the gospel to people.
I just took this class called "Becoming a missional church" and this is idea is exactly what they would call missional. I say do it.
Thanks for the comment Ang! Would you have any advice for someone looking to live missionally?
or anybody else who is reading this, advice for living missionally?
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