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DISCERNMENT
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Churches therefore have little or no sense of being "God's called people," a unique community with a special mission in the world. Their chief concern is either to survive or to be an attractive and helpful social-service agency. They lack spiritual energy and the awareness of God's active presence in their midst. |
The Center can help your church:
- Utilize Bible study processes focusing on the calling of the church as "the people of God."
- Engage in substantive discussion of the meaning and purpose of the church today.
- Reflect on what it means for the church to be a sign, foretaste, and instrument of the reign of God.
- Participate in prayerful discernment processes to discover afresh what God is calling the church to be and do in the world of the third millennium.
- Consider the church as the focus of mission, as a contrast community that offers the world an alternative way of being a society.
- Experience envisioning processes which lead to a new sense of purpose and direction.
- Clarify your church's role and mission, key result areas and goals, and strategic orientation.
- Explore, study, and reflect upon pertinent resources relevant to discerning God's mission.
- Encourage active participation in renewing training and useful discernment seminars.
- Effectively utilize the Center's consultants.
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