Missional Moves – Part 2: Centralized Shift

After you have read Part 2, pages 111-200, please comment below with your response to the following questions:

  1. Share any new perspectives or insights you may have gained from reading this selection.
  2. What do you believe is the most important thing you have learned from this text?

3 thoughts on “Missional Moves – Part 2: Centralized Shift”

  1. 1) It was inspiring to read about The Monroe Circle ministry beginning with two women mentoring seven children at a picnic table and it growing over time to involve more than one hundred volunteers serving hundreds of kids. . .with other teams partnering with local government agencies, schools, and businesses to offer Life Basics to single moms, food pantry distribution, building renovation and café, GED courses, family literacy classes, financial teaching, vocational training, help with job placement, and several athletic programs. In addition to all this a weekly community would gather for worship, Bible study and leadership development. (pp. 142-144)

    2) The most import thing(s) I have taken from Part 2 are summarized in the quotes below:

    “Our natural tendency is to look at the poor in terms of their neediness, while ignoring their wealth. But the poor often have incredible assets…the seeds necessary for a community’s transformation already exist within that community at some level.” (p. 121)

    “What is God already doing?” (p. 156) “Because before we act, we need to look and listen, watching for the ways in which God is already at work. Our invitation is to join God in his mission, not to do our own thing and then invite him to bless it.” (p. 158)

    • Thank you for the encouraging review and clear message that speaks to all of us of Missional Moves! We hope it fuels the fire for God’s mission in and through our daily lives and listen to his direction on what he is already doing in our lives and others . gratitude thanks

  2. 1. Share any new perspectives or insights you may have gained from reading this selection.
    Bottom up: A big problem requires a small solution. This means that a good way to address big problems is to start by thinking small. This affirms that the little things we do in faith can have tremendous value. Jesus said “A little leaven is enough. Trust me. ” In other words, God will take and use bottom-up, international, strategic, small interventions to make a huge impact.(p116-117)

    2.What do you believe is the most important thing you have learned from this text?

    Relief verses development
    The first step towards friendship and interdependence Is understanding the difference between relief and development. Relief is when we do something to and for people. And Development is when we do something with people in a way so they learn to do it for themselves. And this leads to four stages of operations.
    1. Crisis/Relief
    2 . Rehabilitation
    3. Development.
    4. Sustainability/Transition
    Through the process of development, the community discovers their own dignity, capacity,potential and power.

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