The Missional Church

A 2-minute explanation by Jeff Maguire (and friends) of what a "missional church" is. Thanks to common craft for the inspiration, Brian Hurst for the art, and blimp pilot Cole Beshore for special effects.

You don't even know your way to the post office

The Rev. Billy Graham tells of at time early in his career when he arrived in a small town to preach a sermon.

Wanting to mail a letter, he asked a young boy where the post office was. When the boy told him, Rev. Graham thanked him and said, "If you'll come to the Baptist church this evening, you can hear me telling everyone how to get to Heaven."

"I don't think I'll be there," the boy said.

"You don't even know your way to the post office."

Quoted from funny(at)net153.com email list

Spurgeon's Heart

"If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for."

Charles Spurgeon - Quoted from the Sermon Fodder email list

Mission

The church exists by mission as fire exists by burning.

Emil Brunner

Mission quotes

If everything is Mission then nothing is mission.
- this empties the word mission of all meaning.

A bird with only one wing won't fly

A pair of scissors needs two blades not one.

Mission is discerning what God is doing in the world and trying to do it with Him.
- John Taylor.

Colin Chapman - SDMTS Summer School 1995

What is a missionary?

We think a missionary is someone who crosses the sea. Rather, a missionary is someone who sees the cross!

J John - New Wine 1995

God Church & Mission

'The Church of God does not have a mission in the world' . . . it is more accurate to say that 'The God of mission has a church in the world'.

Tim Dearborn