“‘Missional’ Diagnosis”?
FYI - Here’s a quote I stumbled upon earlier which gives me pause for further reflection….ÂÂ
http://www.pcusa.org/pastorselders/dailyquote#Oct17
October 17 Think of a hospital. The patients are dying like flies. The methods are altered in one way or another. It’s no use. What does it come from? It comes from the building, the whole building is full of poison. The patients are registered as dead, one of this disease, and that one of another, it is not true; for they are all dead from the poison from the building. So it is in the religious sphere. That the religious situation is lamentable, that religious men are in a pitiable state, nothing is more certain. So one man thinks it would help if we got a new hymnal, another a new altarâ€â€book, another a musical service, etc., etc. In vain – for it comes from . . . the building.  Søren Kierkegaard, “Medical Diagnosisâ€?
With such a diagnosis, I would pray the Lord’s healing upon the body of Christ for a hopeful prognosis in God’s shalom –
Toward seeking a more fundamentally missional purpose for the church of Christ, living life together transformed in the power and fellowship of the Holy Spirit as a community of faith for the glory of God, I continueÂÂ
Under the mercy and healing grace…ÂÂ
