StretchyChurch

And there was much rejoicing in the land!!

Early this year I read most of a book called The Missional Leader by Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk.

The book is 206 pages long. I misplaced the book after reading 193 pages. Frustrating!! To be so close to finishing and then to leave it dangling…

But yesterday afternoon, while straightening an cleaning in preparation for having to sell our house, Robin found my book! And this morning I finally finished reading it!

And I gotta tell you it’s a great book! It focuses on what a leader needs to do to cultivate a church’s missional imagination. In other words, how can a leader help a church discover its calling as a missionary people in the world?

Here’s the cool thing: Based on the conversations I’ve had with people at Northminster Presbyterian Church (the church I’ll be leading starting in October), a lot of folks at that church are coming–or have come–to the realization that a church needs to be more than a place you go to on Sunday morning. A church needs to be God’s missionary people in its community and in the world.

I’m excited that the church and I share a mutual mindset–at least among those I’ve gotten to know in the last couple of months.

My plan is to review this book over the next few weeks, and hopefully post some of the really good stuff here.