Comments on: Missional Church Video http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2007/04/26/352/ "ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta" - Dante, Inferno, XXI.139 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:43:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Tom Pratt http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2007/04/26/352/#comment-979 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:19:02 +0100 http://spacebetween.blogsome.com/2007/04/26/352/#comment-979 Nice little summary of the video, Tyler. It would be interesting to see some case studies of missional types who ended up as emergents because of frustration with their traditional church base and structures, and some studies of emergents who ended up as missionals as they ran into some of the downsides of continual church planting including a lack of institutional resources to back the work. I bet the 'membrane' between the two is pretty porous :^) In my InterVarsity 'church planting' days (we focused heavily on developing new campus fellowships)I was more a missional type with InterVarsity as the resourced and long term institution we tried to reform while also creating new ministries under its umbrella. In my Servant Partners experience I and other old IV types have gone mostly emergent and focused on trying to focus exclusively on developing new organizations and churches while 'dumping' the traditional institution altogether. Of course, ironically, we've ended up creating our own institution so eventually SP types will really be missional again, probably trying to reform SP while using it as a base for further church planting. What goes around comes around? Anyone who romanticizes either direction probably hasn't been at it long enough :^) I like Bolgers's realism about the emergent path. Nice little summary of the video, Tyler. It would be interesting to see some case studies of missional types who ended up as emergents because of frustration with their traditional church base and structures, and some studies of emergents who ended up as missionals as they ran into some of the downsides of continual church planting including a lack of institutional resources to back the work. I bet the ‘membrane’ between the two is pretty porous :^)

In my InterVarsity ‘church planting’ days (we focused heavily on developing new campus fellowships)I was more a missional type with InterVarsity as the resourced and long term institution we tried to reform while also creating new ministries under its umbrella.

In my Servant Partners experience I and other old IV types have gone mostly emergent and focused on trying to focus exclusively on developing new organizations and churches while ‘dumping’ the traditional institution altogether. Of course, ironically, we’ve ended up creating our own institution so eventually SP types will really be missional again, probably trying to reform SP while using it as a base for further church planting. What goes around comes around?

Anyone who romanticizes either direction probably hasn’t been at it long enough :^) I like Bolgers’s realism about the emergent path.

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