Missional Renaissance

In Missional Renaissance, Reggie McNeal highlights three shifts in thinking and behavior.

Three Shifts in Thinking and Behavior:

From Church-Centric to Kingdom-Focused[1]

From Destination to Connector
From thinking we are the point to being absolutely the point
From attractional to incarnational
From member culture to missionary culture
From proclamation to demonstration
From institutional to organic
From reaching and assimilating to connecting and deploying
From worship services to service as worship
From congregations to missional communities
From there to here

From Program Development to People Development[2]

From standardization to customization
From scripting to shaping
From participation to maturation
From delivering to debriefing
From didactic to behavioral
From curriculum-centered to life-centered
From growing into service to growing through service
From compartmentalization to integration
From age segregation to age integration

From Church-Based Leadership to Kingdom Leadership[3]

From church job to kingdom assignment
From institutional representative to viral agent
From director to producer
From reliving the past (the Historian) to rearranging the future (the journalist)
From train and deploy to deploy and debrief
From positional to personal

Thanks to Bob Adams for providing this content.

[1] p. 42 ff

[2] p. 95 ff

[3] p. 133 ff

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