9 Needed Fundamental Shifts of Christian Living

ChurchYA Summit 2008cultureemerging church
Written By Jason Valendy
Presented by Gary at the Young Adult Summit

We need to shift from:

  1. Being Church focused to Kingdom focused
  2. Maintenance leadership to Missional leadership
  3. Fear of failure to embrace failure (fail often to succeed sooner)
  4. Codependency (people have needs, we need people to keep the institution alive) to worship (aka: giving) and service
  5. Talking at people to Talking with people
  6. Counting money and people to counting relationships and missions
  7. Dualistic worldview (there is sacred time and there is secular time) to sacred worldview (all time is sacred)
  8. Judge and savior to Cultivator
  9. Attractional (church growth model) to Missional (ministry with people)
Jason Valendy

Husband, father of two boys, pastor in the United Methodist Church, and guy who is interested in the desert mothers and fathers. The idea of Orthocardia is the pursuit of having a “right heart” over the pursuit of having a “right belief” (orthodoxy) or a “right action” (orthopraxy).

www.jasonvalendy.net
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