{"id":2745,"date":"2007-08-05T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:31:58","slug":"lessons-from-rick-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/lessons-from-rick-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Rick Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DMN<\/span> shares some lessons Rick Warren says the church should learn and un-learn about church mission work.
\nThe lessons comes from the AP and the summer 2007 issue of Leadership<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We need to learn… humility. The focus of world Christianity in the future will be South America, Africa, and Asia. Get used to it.<\/p>\n

To unlearn… our consumer approach to spirituality. The American church needs to move from selfish consumerism to unselfish contribution.<\/p>\n

To learn… a new approach to missions, and who does it, and where, and how it’s funded.<\/p>\n

To unlearn… our dependence on specialized parachurch ministries. The church is called to embody the whole Gospel.<\/p>\n

To learn… to go and to serve. The old approach was praying, then studying, then giving, then — maybe one day — going. Now, we just go and see how we can serve.<\/p>\n

To unlearn… our method of goal-setting. Most leaders set their goals too low and try to accomplish them too quickly. We need to set big goals and devote the rest of our lives to accomplishing them.<\/p>\n

To learn… that average Christians can do missions. People around the world want to learn from peers — mother to mother, businessperson to businessperson, teen to teen.<\/p>\n

To unlearn… our desire to pay. Americans’ reflex is to try to solve a problem by throwing money at it, which often creates dependency and harms the church.<\/p>\n

To learn… to trust the people we serve. Assume that indigenous leaders have a better idea of what their people need than we do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you struggle with any of these? Think Warren is right on – or a little off in his assessment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DMN shares some lessons Rick Warren says the church should learn and un-learn about church mission work. The lessons comes from the AP and the summer 2007 issue of Leadership: We need to learn… humility. The focus of world Christianity in the future will be South America, Africa, and Asia. Get used to it. … Continue reading Lessons from Rick Warren<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Ih","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10815,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/10815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}