Lakeside Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, CA, is an older congregation that’s recently gone through a spiritual renewal. This congregation, many in their 70s and 80s, is reawakening to their purpose in their city as a people on mission, a people called to take the good news of God’s Kingdom to those around them, and especially to the poor.
“The dream that we have as a leadership of the church,” the pastor shares, “is that over the next five years or so that this would become a body of believers who are in mission groups, where they’re growing in their relationship with God, where they’re growing in their relationship with one another, and they’re growing in their relationship with the world around us…taking the good news of the Kingdom, sharing it with people as they are open to it, and seeing lives changed.”
As you watch this video, consider what it means for everyone, young and old, to participate in the mission of God.
QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
Does your local church have an understanding of their calling and place in the mission of God?
What would it look like to join with others in a small “mission band” on mission in your city? Who could be part of that group?
ABOUT
JD Ward leads the ChurchNEXT team ReWire, which exits to help churches deepen their intimacy with Christ and their impact in the world through mobilizing small missional communities. They call these small mission communities Kingdom Outposts. JD lives with his wife, Tracy, in the Silicon Valley in CA, and has been with Novo since 2009.
Go here to learn more about ReWire and the ways they work to support Christian leaders and churches in missional living.