God's Ensuing Work

Missional Church 25 Years Later [3]

Series: Missional Church 25 Years Later

1. A Quarter Century of Theological Revolution?

2. Missional Engagement with Culture

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After a long break, I’m finally getting back to this series. I’ll be transparent: other time commitments overwhelmed my capacity to write. But in part, I balked at the task I set for myself because I intended to finish the series with one more post. After chewing for a while, it became apparent that I had taken too big a bite. Doing justice to the questions I’m asking requires a more measured pace, at least for me. I’ve revised my approach accordingly. Thanks for your patience! Hopefully, it will be rewarded.

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According to missional theology, God is at work whether the church participates in that work or not. The critique of missional theology is, therefore, built-in: what God is doing in the world—if we can perceive it—is the criterion for evaluating the missional church’s actions and understandings.

The previous two posts on Missional Church have emphasized the theological shift and the cultural analysis that the book represents. Subsequent articles will contemplate the practical consequences of the book’s proposal: whether the kinds of missional churches that the book envisions have participated in what God has been up to in the last twenty-five years.