BREAKING THE MISSIONAL CODE

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BREAKING THE MISSIONAL CODE

• Code Breaking Behavior in the Local Congregation

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Orange County Barbie Dolls
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IRVINE BARBIE

• This princess Barbie is sold only at The Irvine
  Spectrum. She comes with an assortment of Louis
  Vuitton handbags, a Lexus SUV, a toy dog named
  Honey, and a cookie-cutter house. Available with
  or without tummy tuck and face lift. Workaholic
  Ken sold only in conjunction with augmented
  version

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GARDEN GROVE BARBIE

• In addition to perfect English, this Barbie also
  speaks fluent Japanese, Chinese, Mandarin and
  Tagalog. Comes with her own street-racing import
  car, complete with Japanese animation decals.
  Large collection of video games sold separately.
  Careers or homes for this Barbie are not
  available, because she will stay with her parents
  until they die. If you purchase a Ken doll, he
  must move into her familys home and wait for
  their inheritance.

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SANTA ANA BARBIE

• This Spanish-speaking-only Barbie comes with a
  1984 Toyota with expired temporary plates and
  three Barbies in the back seat, but no car seats.
  The optional Ken doll comes with a meat-packers
  uniform and is missing three fingers on his left
  hand. Green cards are not available for Santa
  Ana Barbie or Ken.

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MISSION IS INCARNATIONAL Not Attractional

• Purity of Worship
• Marketplace saints
• Sacred gt Secular
• Make disciples not attract them

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INCARNATION IS THE KEY

• Taking the Initiative
• Leaving Comfort Zone
• Embedded in the Culture
• Rescuing
• Reaching
• Restoring
• Redeeming

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NEW DICTIONARY WORDS

• Alpha
• Bada bing
• Bootylicious

• Deadhead
• Ka-ching
• Low-rise

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Rehab the Vocab

• MISSIONAL

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MISSIONAL CHURCH

• Members as Missionaries
• Missional Living
• Empower People
• Personal Mission
• Transforming Community
• Releasing
• Church Planting Multiplication
• Mosaic
• Theocentric
• Great Promise Missio Dei

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MISSIONALNot Just Mission-Minded

• MISSION-MINDED
• Send and Support
• Representative
• One expression

• MISSIONAL
• Being and doing
• Participative
• Essence

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MISSION GALVANIZATION

• 1 entry found for Galvanized.
• galvanize     P   Pronunciation Key  (g l v -n
  z )tr.v. galvanized, galvanizing,
  galvanizes
• To stimulate or shock with an electric current.
• To arouse to awareness or action spur Issues
  that once galvanized the electorate fade into
  irrelevance (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.).
• To coat (iron or steel) with rust-resistant zinc.
  
• gal vaniza tion (-n -z sh n) n. gal vaniz er
  n.

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MISSIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES

• God is a Missionary God
• God calls us to participate in His mission
• Mission is a cross-cultural enterprise
• Contextual analysis is critical
• Translation of the story
• Missionary leadership at all levels

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TWO STRUCTURES OF GODS REDEMPTIVE MISSION

• MODALITY
• Synagogue
• Diocese
• Denomination
• Congregation
• Structured fellowship
• Preservation / purity
• Give money to plant missions
• Be like us to keep the Gospel
• Organization oriented
• Saints support others who plant
• Tight supervision / conforms

• SODALITY
• Missionary Band
• Monastery
• Mission association
• Movement
• Organic / chaotic
• Catalyst for renewal
• Do mission planting
• Be like them to share the Gospel
• Action oriented
• Saints raised up to plant
• Connected, but messy and innovative

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TWO STRUCTURES OF GODS REDEMPTIVE MISSION

• MODALITY
• Mending
• Saints on radar
• Temple focused
• Jerusalem glasses
• Holy Ground Holy of Holies
• Rooted in authority
• Church assigns
• Structure of preservation
• Doing things right
• Keep it preached
• General

• SODALITY
• Sending
• Lost on the radar
• Tabernacle focused
• Babylon (Diaspora) glasses
• Holy Ground Mission Field
• Divorced from authority
• Spirit sends
• Structure of change
• Doing right things
• Go where unpreached
• Contextual

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NINE ESSENTIAL PRACTICESThe Missional
Congregation

• High Threshold Membership
• Real Not Religious
• Teach to Obey
• Rewrite worship each week
• Live apostolically

• Expect to change the world
• Order actions according to purpose
• Release into mission instead of retain in
  membership
• Place kingdom concerns first

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TITANIC HERO
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JOHN HARPERBreaker of the Missional Code
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Missional Screen Test

• Rev. Mrs. John Harper and Nana

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Passenger with a Purpose
John Harper and Nana on the deck of the Titanic
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1,528 People Jumped for Life
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The REAL STAR of Titanic

• Those that are wise will shine like the
  brightness of the heavens, and those who lead
  many to righteousness, like the stars for ever
  and ever.
• Daniel 123

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FOR THE SAKE OF THE LOSTBreaking the Missional
Code