"All types of churches should be simply missional. What we are advocating is for church leaders to distill their ideology of what church is to the irreducible minimum that defines a church as God’s gathered people, sent to a particular community as His redemptive gift to that community.
We need all types of missional churches–big, small, traditional, contemporary, with country music (did we say that?), hip-hop, some with guitars, some with organs. We need churches in homes and churches in well-marked buildings.
The container is not the issue. The issue is not staying contained." Ed Stetzer
Here's the money part of that quote.
A church is - God’s gathered people, sent to a particular community as His redemptive gift to that community.
New Hope Baptist Church is not buildings, a corporation, or an address.
It is a gift of grace to Valparaiso and its surroundings to serve as a beacon of hope and hands of love to the people we live and work with.
That "Love God, Love People, Serve All" - deal? Yeah, that's what I'm pushing because that's what God expects from us.
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