Creating a Missional Church

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The Purpose for Crushing Bones

• Creating a Missional Church

The Missional Church is a community of Christs
followers who are contrasted from its community
by holiness,
yet with a deep yearning to reach its community
for Christ in an ever growing circle of influence.
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Of Cleansing Crushing

• (Psalms 511-8) A psalm of David. When the
  prophet Nathan came to him after David had
  committed adultery with Bathsheba

The Purpose for Crushing Bones
Crushing
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Of Cleansing Crushing

• (Psalms 511-8) Have mercy on me, O God,
  according to Your unfailing love according to
  Your great compassion blot out my transgressions

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Of Cleansing Crushing

• (Psalms 511-8) Wash away all my iniquity and
  cleanse me from my sin. For I know my
  transgressions, and my sin is always before me

NOTICE Sin is the problem that humanity cannot
solve for itself were always playing catch up
to our sin.
Thus, the Need of humanity is not in being
Cautious about sin but in finding Cleansing from
it!
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Of Cleansing Crushing

• (Psalms 511-8) Against You, You only, have I
  sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so
  that You are proved right when You speak and
  justified when You judge

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Of Cleansing Crushing

• (Psalms 511-8) Surely I was sinful at birth,
  sinful from the time my mother conceived me

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Of Cleansing Crushing

• (Psalms 511-8) Surely You desire truth in the
  inner parts You teach me wisdom in the inmost
  place

But in how to change their understanding of God
from Stranger to Lover
NOTICE The Solution to Sin cannot be in the
nature of humanity but in the nature of God
Thus, the Message of the Missional Church is not
how to make bad people good
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Of Cleansing Crushing

• (Psalms 511-8) Cleanse me with hyssop, and I
  will be clean wash me, and I will be whiter than
  snow

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Of Cleansing Crushing

• (Psalms 511-8) Let me hear joy and gladness
  let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

Thus, the Purpose of the Missional Church is not
only to bring about the Joy of Salvation from sin
but also the Healing of our Lives through the
Crushing of our Stubbornness.
NOTICE Where Cleansing is the Outward
Purification from the stain of sin
Crushing is the Inward Transformation from the
hardness of our spirit.
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Of Cleansing Crushing
Of Restoration and Mission
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Of Restoration and Mission

• (Psalms 519-13) Hide Your face from my sins and
  blot out all my iniquity

Of Restoration and Mission
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Of Restoration and Mission

• (Psalms 519-13) Create in me a pure heart, O
  God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me

a pure
heart
a steadfast
spirit
Thus, the Nature of the Missional Church is not
about saying nice things that comfort the soul,
NOTICE The Restoration of God is both in Purity
and in Passion
Purity
Passion
as Light is with Fire, they are inseparable
qualities of True Transformation.
but saying True things that Transform the spirit.
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Of Restoration and Mission

• (Psalms 519-13) Do not cast me from Your
  Presence or take Your Holy Spirit from me...

Presence
NOTICE
A Deep Desire for Gods
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Of Restoration and Mission

• (Psalms 519-13) Restore to me the joy of Your
  salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to
  sustain me

Restor
NOTICE
A Deep Desire for Gods Presence
A Sincere Pursuit for Gods Restoration
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Of Restoration and Mission

• (Psalms 519-13) Then I will teach transgressors
  Your ways, and sinners will turn back to You.

NOTICE
A Deep Desire for Gods Presence
Thus, He sends those whom He has cleansed, and
crushed and healed, and loved...
God hates
A Sincere Pursuit for Gods Restoration
the fact
a Clear Call to Missional living
produces
that sin kills
to tell the story of His ways.
because
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Of Restoration and Mission
Are you?

• Thats being Missional.

Thus, He sends those whom He has cleansed, and
crushed and healed, and loved...
to tell the story of His ways.