Comments on: Out of the Culture – Missional Realities for Small Groups http://www.elichurchplanting.com/2011/12/out-of-the-culture-missional-realities-for-small-groups/ Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:03:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Juan Black Olaferdaso http://www.elichurchplanting.com/2011/12/out-of-the-culture-missional-realities-for-small-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Juan Black Olaferdaso Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:57:09 +0000 https://www.elichurchplanting.com/?p=1719#comment-270 Maybe the subculture this time is a counter revolution where technology is not attacked, just circumvented.

]]> By: Don Chatelain http://www.elichurchplanting.com/2011/12/out-of-the-culture-missional-realities-for-small-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Don Chatelain Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:47:38 +0000 https://www.elichurchplanting.com/?p=1719#comment-210 Kirby, thank you for touching on these key issues. I am sharing your article with my small group and expect others will do the same. My prayers are with you – and Kirsten.

It sounds as if you’re calling for a “love praxis” following Jesus’ model directly. It has been my experience that missional service CAN hammer arrogance out of us. As a girl, my wife went to the Union Rescue Mission in LA with her grandparents. Our church in San Diego (then pastored by Doug Webster) had a thriving Ladle Fellowship in the heart of the homeless community (living from under the freeways to the wharf area). 1200 different members distributed 600-800 bowls of soup, same # cartons of milk / cups of coffee, 200 loaves of bread and 100 lbs of meat, each week. Working Ladle, mostly in tears and joy, sucked all the oxygen out of what arrogance we possessed, at least on Ladle Day. I’m sure your readers can contribute their own humbling examples of missional service.

Re Small Group ethos, the groups at Imago Dei Portland (pastored by Rick McKinley and team) greatly facilitate their social justice projects and their overall missional emphasis to their project “Love Portland”, in a city even more secular than Austin. God bless them.

Thank you again for this powerful call.

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