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Reimaging the Missional Culture of Crosswalk Community Church of the Nazarene: Through Preaching, Teaching, Experience and Telling our Stories

Gary Edwards

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English

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Description / Abstract

This project sought a reimaging of the missional culture of CrossWalk Community Church of the Nazarene (CCN), located in Westland Michigan. It was believed that through this reimagining, a discernable shift from internally focused ministry to an outward incarnational expression of ministry would take place. This reimagining was pursued through preaching, teaching, experiential opportunity and telling our stories. It was believed that by offering missional concepts in these ways, there would be sufficient exposure necessary to begin this reimagining. CCN from a historical perspective has operated throughout its entire history from internally focused lenses, which ultimately bread an atmosphere of consumerism. This has been a hindrance which in turn produced a negative impact on disciple making and heathy community. It is believed that by shifting to an incarnational, outside of the building model of ministry both disciple making and community would be positively shifted. Scriptural mandate was seen as necessary, to produce not only mental assent to missional lifestyle connected to the sending nature of God, but would also reach deep into the heart of those who make up CCN, by authentic transformation in discipleship response, from the heart not just the head. Ultimately for CCN it became a partnership with God’s mission in the world, by accepting our place as the sent ones, who today fulfill the missio Dei not as an option, but as the mandate of God for His church at CCN.