Two-ism and the Missional Life, with Rev. David Fandey

“When we talk about the missional life, we are going to have to understand that mission is always cross-cultural. All of us have a culture we come from, and culture is not an a-moral thing. There are elements of every culture that are bad and there are parts of every culture that are good. There are things in most cultures that are worthy of redeeming. To live missionally we are necessarily going to have to learn to live cross culturally. To do this effectively it’s going to take huge doses of grace and humility mixed with boldness in the gospel. We are taking the gospel that exists in a ‘Two-ist worldview’ and attempting to communicate it in a culture that largely has a ‘One-ist worldview’.” Pastor David Fandey speaks about the experience of planting a church in a beach community in Southern CA and realizing how vast the difference is between the Two-ism of Christianity and the One-ism so prevalent in the culture and how to reach across that spiritual divide. This was a completely practical, insightful, and extremely encouraging talk for our participants and is one that continue to come in conversation about the think tank in 2012.

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