This week I came across the post below by Artie Davis. (http://pastors.com/the-true-definition-of-missional/)
I love the fact that his article is simple and encourages
churches/ministries to focus on results. I believe in vision, purpose,
planning, discussions, defining your goals, etc. But we often get caught up in
planning and never spend any time in evaluating the outcome. This may be the
most difficult and yet the most critical success in impacting lives for Christ.
What would happen if our churches/ministries focused on
asking the three questions Artie mentions below? How would our ministries
change?
The True Definition of Missional
May 10, 2012 By 2 Comments
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 understand, or define!
I think we spend way to much time debating the 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 (3) questions are measured and are being DONE and growing. Then 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 don’t want to hear, “Good system”, “Well executed definition.” What we want to hear is … “Well DONE!”
That is all…
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