{"id":664,"date":"2008-10-04T13:28:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T20:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2008-10-04T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T20:28:36","slug":"guder-on-missional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2008\/10\/04\/guder-on-missional\/","title":{"rendered":"Guder on Missional"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some excellent quotes from Darrel Guder’s<\/a> book “Missional Church<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201c[C]ulture is not a monolithic stationary entity that Christians should reject, accommodate, or even transform as a whole; it is, instead, a dynamic process with which Christians should interact in a critical, discriminating, and constructive manner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201cThe practice of hospitality is to cultivate communities of peace that intentionally structure themselves as safe and fearless spaces in the face of the despair and hostility of the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201c[M]issional communities are called to be peacemakers \u2013 reconciled and reconciling communities \u2013 making God\u2019s peace visible through the quality of their life and ministry as model and invitation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201c[Missional communities] transform hostility and fear by creating safe spaces that welcome and\u00a0honor\u00a0the stranger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some excellent quotes from Darrel Guder’s book “Missional Church“: n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c[C]ulture is not a monolithic stationary entity that Christians should reject, accommodate, or even transform as a whole; it is, instead, a dynamic process with which Christians should interact in a critical, discriminating, and constructive manner.\u201d \u00a0 n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe practice of hospitality is to cultivate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","category-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-aI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}