BY STEVE DUNN
The move from being a traditional and inward-focused church to an outward focused one requires a culture shift. As this is played out in the first decades of the 21st century it is done so against the backdrop of the shift in our nation from a churched culture to what some have called a post-Christian one. In particular,
within the church you find yourself moving from a membership culture to a discipleship one. In a recent church council training session, I spoke of it in this way:
Rethink
Rethink who you are as a Christ-follower and as a leader
Don’t go to church - BE the Church
DISCIPLES not members
EXPECT something from God
REINVEST in ministry
ACT intergenerationally
ADVOCATE the Vision
GIVE to God first and give more
STOP pleasing people and please God
EMBRACE excellence and reject perfectionism
STOP saying me and proclaim we
(c) 2013 by Stephen L Dunn
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