Off-Road Disciplines | Earl Creps
Earl Creps. Off-Road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders. Jossey-Bass, 2006. 240 pp.
There are two key dynamics that scholars of the church have labored for years to discover: (1) leaders with a missional heart find a way, no matter how unconventional, to connect to culture; and (2) this heart is present (and absent) in every conceivable model of ministry.
Missional leaders see the world through the eyes of Jesus and see Jesus in the world. They assume the role of helping the body of Christ understand itself and make of it much more than a missionary sending agency, as if the “mission field” existed only somewhere else to be reached by someone else. Rather, these leaders cannot conceive of the church apart from living the mission of God to touch the world with redeeming love in Christ. . . .
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