Marginal Christianity

In: Issue 3 Fall 2013   http://www.themissionalnetwork.com/index.php/alan-j-roxburgh?utm_source=The+Missional+Network&utm_campaign=68e6e832d7-Newsletter_July10_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_42a13c6df0-68e6e832d7-16679110 By Alan J Roxburgh  in Share 3 In the course of time the king of Egypt died and the children of Israel cried because of their bondage and their cry came before God and God heard their groaning and remembered… (Exodus 2: 23-24) “ The cry was a response to the existential pain of a withering crisis of everyday life in the city. The demand was really a command to look that crisis clearly in the eye and create an alternative urban life…our political task…is to imagine and reconstitute a totally different kind of city out of the disgusting mess of a globalizing, urbanizing capital run amok. [1] God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are always too full to receive them."  St. Au...

http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/the-table-in-the-neighborhood/ One important pathway to mission in the neighborhood is “the meal.” This is what I have been learning these past many years. (This what Life on the Vine talked about this past Sunday at 9 a.m.). It all starts by someone inviting a few Christians who live in close geographical proximity (neighborhood) to share a meal at the same time every week. This may take some doing. People are reticent to commit to such a thing. You must be persistent to overcome the inertia of isolation in America. There will be a natural ferreting through people who have no intention of coming out of their isolation. We must be ok with that. We must find the ones who are as hungry as we are.  We must together come to see a vision of life together over time and the richness of the Kingdom that can bring. So I suggest probe as to people’s longings for friendship and connection. Paint pictures of an earlier time when people ...