Covid19 has been tough on church worship services, but it has also exposed something beautiful—the Church can gather without walls.
When you pare down the Church to its essentials, something potent is discovered at its core. Could it be time to re-explore the DNA of the church when it’s decentralized, when it takes on the form of a grassroots local movement?
How might we organize using movemental practices that release the People of God for ordinary mission, social justice, and healing in their neighborhoods?
Let’s unpack the 5 Essential Marks of a Church Without Walls in this 2 part series.
FIVE MARKS OF THE CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS:
- From Sunday Spectators to Everyday Disciples
- From Pastor-Centric to the Priesthood of All Believers (5-Fold)
- From Building-Centric to Neighborhood Presence
- From Small Group Studies to Communities for Mission
- From a Narrow Gospel to a Wholistic Gospel
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Eun Strawser is a bi-vocational church planter and physician in Honolulu, HI. She was trained and practiced in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania and as a Fulbright Scholar. She currently lives in Honolulu, where she’s surrounded by her tribe, “Ma Ke Alo o”, a people of Presence, which includes her red-bearded husband and their three, seriously, amazing children.
Emmanuel Mustapha was raised a Muslim. Devoted and serious, he involved himself in Islamic mysticism. As a professional truck driver he drove all the trade routes in West Africa. But on December 9, 1991, as he puts it, “Jesus came into my truck and asked me to follow Him.” Emmanuel Mustapha, or “Muss” as he is affectionately known, has now helped start over 600 missional churches in Ghana and has established the Ghana School of Ministry which is a decentralized pastor’s training school. Muss also understood from the start that he must address the total needs of people, believing in a holistic Gospel. He noticed the incredible number of children whose parents had died, so he built an orphanage. He also noticed the need for education and built a school. He has pioneered good will between Christians and Muslims in Yendi to acts of kindness and enlisting Muslims together for the common good. Muss is passionate about movemental church planting and is a Coach with the V3 Movement.
JR Woodward has been passionately planting churches on the East and West Coast that value tight-knit community, life-forming discipleship, locally-rooted presence and boundary-crossing mission for over 25 years. He is the author of Creating a Missional Culture (IVP, 2012) and co-author of The Church as Movement (IVP, 2016). He co-founded the Missio Alliance and currently serves as the National Director for the V3 Church Planting Movement. He is the co-founder of the Praxis Gathering and writes for numerous websites and journals. He has a Masters of Arts in Global Leadership from Fuller and is working on his PhD at the University of Manchester (UK).
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