{"product_id":"2940148996347","title":"Leading Missional Communities","description":"Missional Communities (MCs) are a hot topic right now in the church, and many are excited\u003cbr\u003eabout the potential of MCs to be a vehicle that allows the church to better live out its mission in\u003cbr\u003ethe world. But if we embrace and implement MCs merely as a new program, they won’t live up\u003cbr\u003eto their potential and we’ll be on to the next hot topic in a few months.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMCs are helpful only if we use them as a vehicle that allows us to point ourselves towards a\u003cbr\u003emuch deeper issue: how we can learn to live our everyday lives as extended families on mission.\u003cbr\u003eWe call this reality oikos (“household” in Greek), and that’s actually what this book is about.\u003cbr\u003eThink of it like this: an MC is a great vehicle, but vehicles are supposed to take you somewhere.\u003cbr\u003eThe destination the vehicle of MC takes us to is oikos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe believe oikos is something the Spirit of God is doing in this time to restore the church’s ability\u003cbr\u003eto function fruitfully in discipleship and mission the way the early church did, publicly living out\u003cbr\u003ethis is the make-or-break issue for the Western church. We simply will not see God’s dream for\u003cbr\u003ethe world come true unless we learn how to function as extended families on mission. And MCs\u003cbr\u003eare a great vehicle that helps jump-start that culture-shifting process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe began using MCs over 25 years ago, and have seen both breakthrough and failure. This the Western world in leading, growing, and multiplying MCs. The great thing is that it isn’t actually that complicated, and God will give us the power to do it. This isn’t a task reserved for church leaders, pastors, or experts—it’s for everyone! The goal is to learn how to function as an extended family on mission. We really believe this is something everyone can learn to do, and this book is about taking the first steps in that direction.","brand":"3D Ministries International, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067908538608,"sku":"2940148996347","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148996347_p0.jpg?v=1763710645","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148996347","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}