Mike Brantley has done another great post where he dialogues with his brother in law Gavin Knight (a successful church leader of a mainline Christian Congregation.) He was asked by gavin on how you define success in the Missional Church paradigm. Mike Brantley replied:
Measuring success: Just had a conversation this past week of how we are doing that. Souls in heaven is the ultimate isn’t it?! What we (our community and not able to speak for anyone else) is using a pathway: not interested, potential contact, contact, participating, journeying, embracing the Gospel, grounding, serving, growing, reproducing, catalyst... This left to right scale is a method we use to measure where we are with EVERY contact... From a Rona (whom you know) to Justin (latest newsletter) they are on there; what we are doing is discussed, what next, managing the conversational journey with them, etc. SO there is a measure of success as we move them along.
Anyway, there are many great things that are said in this post, especially some really practical thoughts on Missiology (the study of how to do mission in the culture we live.) You can find the full post here.
5 comments:
hi Nathanael
thanks for the link
the conversation Mike and I are having continues by email and you can expect further posts on his blog, mine and maybe the blogs of other participants too
you are free to join the conversation by commenting on Mike's blog, or mine (when I post a little further into the conversation)
wondering if we've met? as I live in Wellington too
regards, Gavin
PS, the Facebook link on the right of your blog is broken
Hey Gavin, I will be interested in reading the further conversation as it goes on. I think I am going to be pretty busy in the next while but I will see.
I do not think we have met, or at least I can't remember it.
The facebook link isn't exactly broken, I've just changed my privacy settings to high.
Thanks for the comment, I always like the dialogue that Mike has on his blog, it fuels the fire for mission here in Wellington.
Just added my two cents on my blog from our email conversation as well...Mike really needs to get a different picture of me to use in his posts though!
Whats so wrong about you posing playing Wii Mike? Yeah I read your thoughts on the subject, I'm thinking of a thoughtful response at the moment, hopefully I'm able to respond sometime soon. At the moment I'm still a little bit tired from all the graduation celebrations I had yesterday!
Whats so wrong about you posing playing Wii Mike? Yeah I read your thoughts on the subject, I'm thinking of a thoughtful response at the moment, hopefully I'm able to respond sometime soon. At the moment I'm still a little bit tired from all the graduation celebrations I had yesterday!
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