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- 1. hopeful visions ofthe missional church
- 2. hopeful visions ofthe missional church restoring paradise
- 3. Hopeful Visions of the Missional Church: Imagining and Enacting
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- 6. what if thedreams are in the hearts of your members? and your heart too? practicing discernment
- 7. Not merely aprocess of strategic planning - but of spiritual receptivity: A story about a community garden
- 8. A story abouta dirty Costa Rican town ...
- 9. A story abouthomeless folks in San Francisco ... (Take This Bread)
- 10. A story aboutHIV in Dominican Republic ...
- 11. A story aboutskateboarders in London ...
- 12. A story aboutan unemployment support group in DC area ...
- 13. imagine this question being asked in a church near you: What would it look like if the reign of God were welcomed here?
- 22. There are manyreasons to compare our churches to an old male tortoise …
- 23. There are manyreasons to compare our churches to an old male tortoise … Slow-moving … isolated … Ancient-looking withdrawn in its shell … won’t stick its neck out
- 24. There are many reasons tocompare the changes in our world to a tsunami …
- 25. There are manyreasons to compare the emerging global culture to an orphaned hippo … Orphaned by religion … science … government … the economy … technology … consumerism… “progress”…
- 27. -formation? What couldhappen in our world if we turned back outward toward our neighbors - with good news, hope, gentleness, and respect?
- 30. The Lord’s Prayer 1.Our Father above us and all around us … 2. May Your unspeakable Name be revered.
- 31. 3. Now, hereon earth may Your commonwealth come. 4. On earth as in heaven may Your will be done.
- 32. 5. Give ustoday our bread for today. 4. Forgive us our wrongs as we forgive.
- 33. 3. Lead usaway from the perilous trial. 2. Liberate us from the evil.
- 34. 1.For the kingdomis yours and yours alone. 2. The power is yours and yours alone. 3.The glory is yours and yours alone. 4.Now and forever, amen.
- 35. 5. Now, hereon earth may your commonwealth come. 4. Here on earth may your dreams come true. 3. Hallelujah 2. Hallelujah 1. Amen.
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- 37. a poem bysam shoemaker
- 38. I stand bythe door. I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out, The door is the most important door in the world - It is the door through which people walk when they find God.
- 39. They creep alongas if blind, With outstretched, groping hands. Feeling for a door, knowing there must be a door, Yet they never find it… So I stand by the door.
- 40. The most tremendousthing in the world Is for men and women, boys and girls, to find that door - the door to God. The most important thing any of us can do Is to take hold of one of those blind, groping hands, And put it on the latch -
- 41. The latch thatonly clicks And opens to the person’s own touch. People die outside that door As starving beggars die, On cold nights in cruel cities in the dead of winter - Die for want of what is within their grasp.
- 42. They live, onthe other side of it - live because they have not found it. Nothing else matters compared to helping them find it, And open it, and walk in, and find God… So I stand by the door.
- 43. There’s no usemy going way inside, and staying there, When so many are still outside and they, as much as I, Crave to know where the door is. And all that so many ever find Is only the wall where a door ought to be.
- 44. Go in, greatsaints, go all the way in - Go way down into the cavernous cellars, And way up into the spacious attics - It is a vast, roomy house, this house where God is.
- 45. Go into thedeepest of hidden casements, Of withdrawal, of silence, of sainthood. Some must inhabit those inner rooms, And know the depths and heights of God. And call outside to the rest of us how wonderful it is.
- 46. Sometimes I takea deeper look in, Sometimes venture in a little farther; But my place seems closer to the opening… So I stand by the door.
- 47. There is anotherreason why I stand there. Some people get part way in and become afraid Lest God and the zeal of His house devour them. For God is so very great, and asks all of us. And these people feel a cosmic claustrophobia
- 48. And want toget out. “Let me out!” they cry. And the people way inside terrify them more. Somebody must be by the door to tell them that they are spoiled For the old life, they have seen too much: Once taste God, and nothing but God will do any more.
- 49. Somebody must bewatching for the frightened Who seek to sneak out just where they came in, To tell them how much better it is inside. The people too far in do not see how near these are To leaving - preoccupied with the wonder of it all.
- 50. Somebody must watchfor those who have entered the door, but would like to run away. So for them, too, I stand by the door. I admire the people who go way in. But I wish they would not forget how it was Before they got in. Then they would be able to help
- 51. The people whohave not yet even found the door, Or the people who want to run away again from God. You can go in too deeply, and stay in too long, And forget the people outside the door.
- 52. As for me,I shall take my old accustomed place, Near enough to God to hear God, and know God is there, But not so far from people as not to hear them, And remember they are there, too. Where? Outside the door -- Thousands of them, millions of them.
- 53. But - moreimportant for me - One of them, two of them, ten of them, Whose hands I am intended to put on the latch. So I shall stand by the door and wait For those who seek it. “I had rather be a door- keeper…”
- 54. So I standby the door. (Samuel Moor Shoemaker, 1893 - 1963)
- 55. So I standby the door. (Samuel Moor Shoemaker, 1893 - 1963)
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