Over the past few years much of my reading has been on the more radical theology side, raising questions over perceived orthodoxy, mission etc. Much of this has given good arguements about why we need to question our approaches and offered a lot of questions about how we are shaped by culture into our orthodox views. Every few years I try to read the bible cover to cover and over the years picked some of the main examples where the text challeneges the percived orthodoxy of the day (Peters vision), but even though I have done a cover to cover reading in the last few years it is only now that I am picking up more nuances in the text and even more explicit examples (samson) where God encourages/allows the perceived orthodoxy to be broken.
Obviously there is the role of reader and what I am bringing to the text, but I am left wondering two things, how much is God directing these perceptions and how do we open ourselves up to the breadth of the text when the position of the reader plays such and important role.

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Hat tip to Dave Lucas – Chesterton writes: “I did try to find a heresy of my own; and when I put the finishing touches to it discovered it was orthodoxy”.

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For my post grad I am looking at how we have separated church and mission, but reading through much of the missional church stuff I still think there remains a problem because the old definition of church that centres on church as the body of believers still remains as a part of the missional church definition (would you say this is true or do I have the wrong end of the stick) which in reality counteracts and limits the mission dei understanding at the heart of missional church as we know it.

Missional church if it is to be true to the sentiments of missio dei is more about people of faith and of no faith being on a journey of discovery (towards fullness of life for themselves, their community and the world) together and WITH an equality in this process that enables mission (the sort that Donovan describes in Christianity rediscovered) and mission dei to truly be the core of church. This means us becoming more powerless about our ideas of what church and if we are not we cannot be missional church. The example I would use is Flow church where the young people I work with call God Flow, and have agreed to come on the journey of being church, which in itself means discovering what Flow and church is, even though they are not believers in the way most people would understand believers to be.

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