So I had dinner tonight with Ed Stetzer and Alan Hirsch…along with about 50 of my closest friends. Actually Mary Beth, Tim, Kevin and Andy are here in beautiful Orlando for the Exponential Conference. We had an opportunity to attend a dinner put on by the Upstream Collective and hear from two great thinkers and practitioners in the church planting world. Here’s a few highlights from Ed and Alan:
Ed Stetzer:
- A lot of people fall in love withtheir model before they fall in love with their mission.
- The how of ministry is determined by the who, what and when.
- Does our model create spectators?
- Watching a great communicator is good, but we need to reproduce the great communicators as well.
- The term “missional” has become a theological junk drawer. We see in the word what we don’t like about the current church.
- Missional in our context, mission minded in the global context
- Every culture has things we can:
-adopt
-adapt
-reject
Alan Hirsch
- Plant in the hard places.
- Live missionally and let the church come from that.
- You have to unlearn and then relearn before you can plan.
- Question about what he specifically would do if he moved into a new neighborhood:
-Find where the social hotspots are and hang out.
-Make friends outside the church.
-Get the church out of the comfortable zone and into public places.
- 3 keys in living missionally:
-Proximity
-Frequency
-Spontaneity – to invite them to your home
- You become a chaplain to the system if you can’t challenge it.
Great stuff and this was just a little precursor.
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