Creating a Crisis of Mission in Communities

Christians in Context has a great post worthy of your reflection. It's called, Creating a Crisis of Mission in Communities. It begins with this:

I was thinking about a video Andrew linked to a while back. The video presents - in parabolic form - the sort of atrophy which often occurs in churches. Somebody plants a church with the burden to reach the lost, the least and the last. They succeed, and the church becomes popular. As the community grows, however, more and more energy is transferred from without to within. Soon the preponderance of resources and time are invested in the community. No longer is the church a 'who', a group of called-out ones who exist that the nations might be blessed. Instead, it's a 'what'; an entity wholly extrinsic from its members which must be sustained at great cost.

Read the rest, especially if you are a church leader.