Not Chris. Look for his book, The "Mission of God's People" if you want to build your own effective, comprehensive understanding of God's work across the ages in meaningful ways. He spoke to us this morning during our plenary session.
Chris talks about God's 5-fold mission of Evangelism, Teaching & building, Compassion, Justice and Creation Care.
As Navigators we have focused big-time on Evangelism and Teaching & Building. Our hallmark, classic terms of follow-up and discipling. Helping people to become established in their faith to the point where they can feed themselvs. Then discipling them until they can lead another to Christ. Then generations, when the one they lead to Christ in turn leads another to Christ.
We keep doing this.
And we do more.
Compassion. Justice. caring for our environmnent, looking after the extended family, healing woundedness. Doing all of this in Communities of Grace, where, rather than rewarding performance, we reward authenticity, humilty, serving and loving.
Our contexts? Church, Society and Creation. Look at these amazing verses from Colossians 1!
18 And when it
comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a
body. He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is
supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above
everything, everyone.
19 So spacious is
he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without
crowding.
20 Not only that,
but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things,
animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all
because of his death, his blood that poured down from the Cross.
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