Why mission can’t drive.
Mark Sayers has a good reflection on his experience of running a missional church here. I have reflected on the question of ‘Is the church missional?‘ in the past.
Theologically speaking the church cannot be fundamentally missional for the church is eternal and mission is not. However I do not want to diminish the importance of mission in the present context. The helpful reflection Mark brings is that mission comes out of our experience of God. I would want ot push this to say that it is as we gather and are discipled around the word of God that we then look out in mission. God helps us to see the things he is doing in Christ which then gives us a deep concern for others and God’s world.
