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Steve Has posted a great article<\/a> on Incarnational Missiology for the emerging church. The points he raises are well formed and insightful. I particularly liked the last link to the incarnation “a controlled death”. Here is a snippet<\/p>\n

And that is the ultimate call of Christian ministry; that we must be prepared to die to self (literally or metaphorically). It is, of course, a scandal even today. It is a scandal to an institution that it is called to renounce all power and privilege. It is a scandal to the rich and the spiritually powerful that we are called to assume the form of servants \u00e2\u20ac\u201c without question and without motive. It is a scandal that the Body of Christ is called to give up everything that it has in order to model Christ.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have been working a lot recently with how we can more truly let our Christology<\/strong> shape our Missiology<\/strong> which in turn should shape our Ecclesiology<\/strong>. In retropect I can see a lot of this process in Off the Beaten Track. It also provides a good check and balance process as we move into and think about new ways of being church.<\/p>\n