Missional—the church buzz word of the last five years. It’s what we’re supposed to be. It’s what we’re supposed to do, but understanding that, well … there seems to be some “tension-al.”
This is the way I see it. I’m a very simple guy. Therefore, things have GOT TO BE simple.
I never see God trying to make things hard to understand, or difficult to define. Jesus equipped a circle of “uneducated and untrained men.”
He didn’t do that by making their mission hard to undertand or define!
I think we spend way too much time debating what something means and not measuring the outcome of what we are doing. Really … I care far less of what your definition is, or what you’re doing.
The big question is …
What are you getting DONE?
1 – How many people are you seeing come to know Jesus?
2 – How many people are learning what it means to follow Jesus?
3 – How many people are becoming LIKE Jesus and bringing others in?
If those three questions are measured and are being DONE and growing, guess what: It doesn’t matter what others may say about how, why and where you are doing it—it only matters that you are getting it DONE!
When you give an account before the Father, we don’t want to hear, “Good system” or, “Well-executed definition.” What we want to hear is … “Well DONE!”
That is all …
