Comments on: Mission Shaped or Mission Flavoured? http://www.steveaddison.net/2005/09/13/mission-shaped-or-mission-flavoured.html Steve Addison's blog about movements for the renewal and expansion of the church. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:30:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: brett http://www.steveaddison.net/2005/09/13/mission-shaped-or-mission-flavoured.html#comment-174 brett Mon, 19 Sep 2005 04:28:15 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/?p=114#comment-174 Yo Ken! Great article mate. I loved the line 'Everyone is encouraged to invite their friends, but all their friends are christians'. So true! Reading your article made me reflect on our journey. How we started out wanting a mission shaped church, but in fact initially went about trying to create a mission flavoured one - as we'd been taught through bible college, books, conferences, etc. Thankfully the passion to actually do mission, some mission flavoured failures, Forge, God's grace and your coaching got us back on track. For us its been a slower road but worth it. Keep up the great work brother! Yo Ken! Great article mate. I loved the line ‘Everyone is encouraged to invite their friends, but all their friends are christians’. So true!
Reading your article made me reflect on our journey. How we started out wanting a mission shaped church, but in fact initially went about trying to create a mission flavoured one – as we’d been taught through bible college, books, conferences, etc.
Thankfully the passion to actually do mission, some mission flavoured failures, Forge, God’s grace and your coaching got us back on track. For us its been a slower road but worth it.
Keep up the great work brother!

]]> By: Ken http://www.steveaddison.net/2005/09/13/mission-shaped-or-mission-flavoured.html#comment-173 Ken Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:31:37 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/?p=114#comment-173 Yo Andrew, How nice it would be to have cut and dried answers to the mission-shaped v mission flavoured issues. Problem is, they're categories that don't apply neatly in every situation. We'll always bring a bit of our churchianity to any mission endeavour we undertake. And, at the end of the day, it's about making disciples, not slotting ourselves into the 'right' categories and extricating ourselves fromt the 'wrong' ones. A couple of questions that may help bring focus to the issues - To what extent are the needs and objectives of mission given priority in shaping existing programs and activities? Ie If it's a choice between missional effectiveness and keeping the parishioners happy, who wins? To what extent are those recently discovering Jesus allowed to shape the style of the missional community? I don't mean wrest control, I mean do they have a say? Yo Andrew,

How nice it would be to have cut and dried answers to the mission-shaped v mission flavoured issues. Problem is, they’re categories that don’t apply neatly in every situation. We’ll always bring a bit of our churchianity to any mission endeavour we undertake. And, at the end of the day, it’s about making disciples, not slotting ourselves into the ‘right’ categories and extricating ourselves fromt the ‘wrong’ ones.

A couple of questions that may help bring focus to the issues – To what extent are the needs and objectives of mission given priority in shaping existing programs and activities? Ie If it’s a choice between missional effectiveness and keeping the parishioners happy, who wins?

To what extent are those recently discovering Jesus allowed to shape the style of the missional community? I don’t mean wrest control, I mean do they have a say?

]]> By: Andrew M http://www.steveaddison.net/2005/09/13/mission-shaped-or-mission-flavoured.html#comment-172 Andrew M Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:55:52 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/?p=114#comment-172 This was a very good article and diagnistic tool for the emerging church as to what ones are which kind... mission shaped or flavoured. Thanks for posting it. My question would be how do these categories get applied to those of us in established churches that don't have too high a view of the meaning of numbers in their worship services and have lots of 'incarnational' endevours? Are we 'mission-flavoured-shaped-churches? This was a very good article and diagnistic tool for the emerging church as to what ones are which kind… mission shaped or flavoured. Thanks for posting it. My question would be how do these categories get applied to those of us in established churches that don’t have too high a view of the meaning of numbers in their worship services and have lots of ‘incarnational’ endevours? Are we ‘mission-flavoured-shaped-churches?

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