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Finding Faith: The mission continues after Easter
Congregation overwhelmingly chose mission work after leaders asked what the church should be known for over the next 10 years.
- Turns out that in recent years, church leaders asked their congregation to envision the next 10 years, and the congregation overwhelmingly answered: they want to be known for mission work.
- Friends, we are now past Easter Sunday, but unfortunately, for far too many, faith ends at the church doors upon exit, meaning believers miss the deeper point of their faith.
- But 20% of my pastoral career has been spent being changed by the least among us, as Jesus names our neighbors on the margins, grounding faith in lived experience.
- And as faithful people, the entire point is the work we do out there; the resurrection of Jesus was the beginning of the story, not the end.
- Now, imagine if every church vowed such a commitment to mission work—isn't that supposed to be the point anyway, the author asks, projecting the movement's broader significance.
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Finding Faith: The mission continues after Easter
FARGO — This week, I found myself around a table of about a dozen faithful people gathered together by a local church that wishes to find a way to live more fully into mission work. Turns out that in recent years the church leaders asked their congregation to help envision what the church’s next 10 years were to look like. And overwhelmingly the answer came back: We want to be known for our mission work. Excellent news! … Right? Indeed it is, bu…
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