Here are some of the thought that have been perculating in my mind from the Missio Dei Conference at Denver Seminary with Allen Hirsch and Michael Frost.
Missio Dei- God is the God of Mission
• Mission is the character of God
• God sent word to us so that we can live them out
• Being like Jesus- is being sent
Participatio Christ
• Set our faces as participants or see where God is already at work
• Kingdom of God and Kingdom of evil are emerging and intertwined with in each other
Imago Dei
• Who have you been sent to be- Mercy, Justice, Love
• Let us be with people no matter who they are.
o See the “trace” of God in them
• How do they do it? – Cheer ongoing ministries
o Support them
o Volunteer in them
o Initiate things in your community and globally
• We have taken the Jesus out of the story and created a religion in the name of Jesus to justify our religiosity
• “Domesticated Jesus“
• Christianity – Christ = RELIGION
We need to look at Jesus as the revolutionary that he was.
Follow Jesus into strange places
• Radical engagements that help
• Meaningful conversations are happening everywhere with non Christians but not in the church
o Have time to have spontaneity , frequent open spaces when opportunity arise to have conversations and except invitations from others you rub shoulders with in daily life.
