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J.R. Woodward
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If you want to read some of my most recent blog entries, you will find my writing at the websites below. Be sure to check these sites out, and look at the church as movement website to discover resources that Dan and I are developing to help people live into The Church as Movement (the latest book that I co-authored with Dan White Jr.)
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“Ultimately, each church will be evaluated by only one thing—its disciples. Your church is only as good as her disciples. It does not matter how good your praise, preaching, programs or property are; if your disciples are passive, needy, consumeristic, and not [moving in the direction of radical obedience,] your church is not good.”
― Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
― Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
“Culture is like gravity. We never talk about it, except in physics classes. We don’t include gravity in our weekly planning processes. No one gets up thinking about how gravity will affect their day. However, gravity impacts us in everything we do, every day. Like gravity, the culture of a congregation can either pull people down to their base instincts or lift people up to their sacred potential. We create culture, and culture re-creates us.”
― Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
― Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
“The prescription for spiritual transformation has often been too individualistically oriented. We are encouraged to engage in spiritual disciplines so that we might have the power to do what we can’t do by will power alone. But what happens when people don’t have the “will power” to engage spiritual disciples on a consistent basis? Our character is left untended. “In a wild world like ours, your character, left untended, will become a stale room, an obnoxious child, a vacant lot filled with thorns, weeds, broken bottles, raggedy grocery bags, and dog droppings. Your deepest channels will silt in, and you will feel yourself shallowing. You’ll become a presence neither you nor others will enjoy, and you and they will spend more and more time and energy trying to be anywhere else.”[1] So what are we to do?”
― Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
― Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
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“More than a strategy, vision or plan, the unseen culture of a church powerfully shapes her ability to grow, mature and live missionally.”
― Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
― Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
“The world is now an urban place. The resources and concerns of the church need to acknowledge this.”
― Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
― Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
“Creating a missional culture is more than just adding some outward programs to the church structure. Creating a missional culture goes to the heart and identity of God, to who we are and who we are becoming.”
― Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
― Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World
“The doctrine of the Trinity means that relationship, that fellowship, that togetherness and sharing, that self-giving and other-centeredness are not afterthoughts with God, but the deepest truth about the being of God. The Father is not consumed with Himself; He loves the Son and the Spirit. And the Son is not riddled with narcissism; he loves his Father and the Spirit. And the Spirit is not preoccupied with himself and his own glory; the Spirit loves the Father and the Son. Giving, not taking; other-centeredness, not self-centeredness; sharing, not hoarding are what fire the rockets of God and lie at the very center of God’s existence as Father, Son and Spirit.”
― Jesus and the Undoing of Adam
― Jesus and the Undoing of Adam
“If the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect balance between union and differentiation, autonomy and mutuality, identity and community.”
― Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
― Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
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