Missional Church Summary

Missional God, Missional Church, packed a lot of content into the first set of reading. Upon reading pages 37-79, I feel that the main focus of the reading was to discuss how the Western Churches have become disconnected from culture and are starting to break free from culture as well. I feel that the author was trying to show that we have become confused in what culture truly is. Early on in the reading, the author states that culture does have positive attributes, such as beauty. Beauty in dress style, the music, and the dialects. ANother reoccurring theme within the reading was that we are all created in the image of God, and all of the things we find beautiful, reflect the image of God. The author spends much of his time focusing on how the church has failed at connecting with culture, instead of turning all that is wrong with culture in on itself to make the church sound as if they have everything figured out. The author list marginalizations that the church is currently failing in when it comes to how we interact with …show more content…
We are to always gather as a whole church. Everyone from every nation, ethnicity, background and lifestyle. We are to unite as one, yet we see more and more how this is not the case and we are separating ourselves more and more over time. The author spends time looking at how the Catholic church, the Orthodox, and the Protestants reach specific conclusions, but one thing that the author points out is that most of the conclusions made are the same as one another's. I feel the author was making a subtle connecting to the matter that we spend so much time, as other denominations, picking apart was is different about the other, yet in the end we all agree upon the same answer, that God is almighty and powerful and that he is working redemptively in our