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What Confession Is

Confession means we agree with God and telling the truth about who we are and what we have done.  Confession includes naming our sin to Jesus and anyone else we have sinned against or is directly affected by our sin. – Driscoll, Mark and Gary Breshears, Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods, Crossway Books, [...]

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Living as Christians, the missional church seeks the welfare of the broken and sinful culture while never condoning sin in the church.  We remind Christians and Christian leaders that the missional church is willing to take risks, make changes and suffer through mistakes as needed.  We commit to become what Jesus ultimately desires for the church to [...]

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The missional church seeks to call both lost sinners to repent of their sin and religious people to repent of their religion for three reasons.  First, both pursue righteousness apart from Jesus’ grace, which is an offense to the gospel.  Second, if only so-called sinners are called to repent, then these “sinners” wrongly think the church [...]

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A missional church not only believes that Scripture is God’s Word of truth, but lives out all that the Bible teaches to the best of its ability.  A missional church has a deep trust in and affection for the Bible and seeks to anchor all of its teaching and life in the storyline of sacred scripture and [...]

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Ed Stetzer and David Putman express the core of the shift to missional thinking like this: from programs to processes from demographics to discernment from models to missions from attritional to incarnational from uniformity to diversity from professional to passionate from seating to sending from decisions to disciples from additional to exponentional from monuments to movements – [...]

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Jesus speaks of going, evangelizing, making disciples, and planting churches that plant churches to continue the process.  Therefore the mission of the church is nothing less than bringing the entire world to Christian faith and maturity. – Driscoll, Mark and Gary Breshears, Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods, Crossway Books, Wheaton, IL, 2008, p. [...]

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A loving church is a visible manifestation of deep Trinitarian love where people can connect to and live out the inner life of the Father, Son and Spirit on their mission of fulfilling the great commision. – Driscoll, Mark and Gary Breshears, Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods, Crossway Books, Wheaton, IL, 2008, p. [...]

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In many ways, the tongue is an indicator of the heart, because, as Jesus said, “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34).  The disciple of Jesus learns to speak under the discipline of the Holy Spirit, who enables him or her to speak truthfully in love in a manner that [...]

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A loving church practices solitude.  Solitude is fasting from people for a prescribed period of time to connect with God and replenish the soul.  This solitude might take place for a few minutes of a few days.  It oftens includes personal and environmental silence.  – Driscoll, Mark and Gary Breshears, Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and [...]

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If we really believe that Jesus is wiser, holier, kinder and more loving than us, and that He is for us, then it would be foolish to disobey Him. – Driscoll, Mark and Gary Breshears, Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods, Crossway Books, Wheaton, IL, 2008, p. 197

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