Quote for Reflection (Sunday, June 8, 2025)

“We are not focused on God’s mission, but on how God serves and meets our needs. Jesus is a packaged choice in the spiritual food court. We have a debased, compromised, sterilized Christianity. The biblical narratives revolve around God’s mission in, through, and for the sake of the world. The focus is toward God. The missio dei is the understanding of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection that is centered on God rather than on meeting personal needs. Craig Van Gelder uses two questions to help people grapple with this: (1) What is God doing in this world? This calls for discernment to recognize what God is doing in our neighborhoods, schools, businesses, and so forth. (2) What does God want to do in our world? Each direct our attention and energy in a very different direction.”

Introducing The Missional Church Alan J. Roxburgh and M. Scott Boren