Quote for Reflection (Sunday, June 22, 2025)

The Sending of the Church

“At its core is the reality that God’s people are a sign to the world of who God is. This missional nature cannot be subdivided into internal activities for insiders and external activities for outsiders. All the church does and is should live out God’s life in the midst of the world; missional people should practice God’s life before a watching world. This includes worship, preaching, communion, loving one another, social justice, caring for the poor, and sharing Jesus’s gospel. Being missional is about all of it, not part. This is the missional imagination. All of God’s people are on mission to engage their surrounding neighborhoods, not just a few who are sent outside the church to do something called missions.”

Introducing the Missional Church-Allan J. Roxburgh & M. Scott Boren