One of the great misunderstandings about living missionally is that it’s void of leadership. The (mis)perception is that everybody can just ‘go do the missional thing’ and have success. That’s just not the case. Good, missional living isn’t void of leadership, it is just going to require a different kind of leadership. I’ve written before about some of my pretenses with being the answer man, and my desire to find new ways getting people involved.
I received Brother Lawrence’s classic work on spirituality called The Practice of the Presence of God from Paraclete Press and was impressed at his devotion to experiencing God in all things, especially pain and suffering.
Today at Garden Park we started a new series on the ‘one anothers’ of the Bible, essentially trying to answer the question: “How does Christ shape a new community?” For us, that is found in the way we interact one another, and our church is spending the next several week examining those. Here are some notes on the way we think about one another. Primary scripture focus is Philippians 2.
