Comments on: J R Woodward’s “Good News” Series: Life After Easter in the Suburbs http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/j-r-woodwards-good-news-series-life-after-easter-in-the-suburbs/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:09:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: dustin http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/j-r-woodwards-good-news-series-life-after-easter-in-the-suburbs/comment-page-1/#comment-5177 dustin Thu, 07 May 2009 19:01:51 +0000 http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/?p=465#comment-5177 Thanks for the post and the response! Thanks for the post and the response!

]]> By: davidfitch http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/j-r-woodwards-good-news-series-life-after-easter-in-the-suburbs/comment-page-1/#comment-5175 davidfitch Thu, 07 May 2009 18:54:32 +0000 http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/?p=465#comment-5175 Dustin, I think you pose a legitimate question. I am more inclined to say that the church is by definition missional, and therefore wherever the church is found it must choose to engage the community for Mission. We're in the suburbs whether we like it or not, at least for now. Yet I actually don't buy that the suburbs need a church less than other places, for I find its life to be crumbling, and the structures equally overbearing. I also don't see this as creating "certain injustices" for I see these things as principalities and powers. For some of us the suburbs is the land of deep inhospitability. The structures are just as evil, and the needs are imploding, and the harvest is great if we will not choose to ameliorate the existing status quo with the gospel. Thanks for the dialogue ... Dustin,
I think you pose a legitimate question. I am more inclined to say that the church is by definition missional, and therefore wherever the church is found it must choose to engage the community for Mission. We’re in the suburbs whether we like it or not, at least for now.
Yet I actually don’t buy that the suburbs need a church less than other places, for I find its life to be crumbling, and the structures equally overbearing. I also don’t see this as creating “certain injustices” for I see these things as principalities and powers. For some of us the suburbs is the land of deep inhospitability. The structures are just as evil, and the needs are imploding, and the harvest is great if we will not choose to ameliorate the existing status quo with the gospel.
Thanks for the dialogue …

]]> By: Dustin http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/j-r-woodwards-good-news-series-life-after-easter-in-the-suburbs/comment-page-1/#comment-5172 Dustin Thu, 07 May 2009 17:52:06 +0000 http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/?p=465#comment-5172 Dave, In a time where social injustices like racial oppression and sexism are still quite rampant in our context (being so close to Chicago), why does it feel as though we need to create certain "injustices" such as 'busy isolationism' and an overwhelming commitment to 'belief in the nuclear family' in order to proclaim the salvific power of the gospel? In other words, why are we sitting in the suburbs carefully (and at times creatively) unearthing these emotional needs for salvation, when there are much more powerful bonds of evil going on thirty miles away? I'm not suggesting that the suburbs don't need a missional church. I'm suggesting that the missional church may be more needed in the places of the world where the hurting is more than an emotional 'isolationism' or overcomittment to capitalism. Although they are not overtly 'missional', many of the megachurches provide the 'community' to aid the isolationism and at times even challenge the autonomy of super capitalistic attitudes. Dave,

In a time where social injustices like racial oppression and sexism are still quite rampant in our context (being so close to Chicago), why does it feel as though we need to create certain “injustices” such as ‘busy isolationism’ and an overwhelming commitment to ‘belief in the nuclear family’ in order to proclaim the salvific power of the gospel?

In other words, why are we sitting in the suburbs carefully (and at times creatively) unearthing these emotional needs for salvation, when there are much more powerful bonds of evil going on thirty miles away?

I’m not suggesting that the suburbs don’t need a missional church. I’m suggesting that the missional church may be more needed in the places of the world where the hurting is more than an emotional ‘isolationism’ or overcomittment to capitalism.

Although they are not overtly ‘missional’, many of the megachurches provide the ‘community’ to aid the isolationism and at times even challenge the autonomy of super capitalistic attitudes.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/j-r-woodwards-good-news-series-life-after-easter-in-the-suburbs/comment-page-1/#comment-5129 Andrew Thu, 07 May 2009 00:11:57 +0000 http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/?p=465#comment-5129 DF - Love it man. Great thoughts on the possibility of the kingdom breaking into the burbs... DF -

Love it man. Great thoughts on the possibility of the kingdom breaking into the burbs…

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