The early Church was viewed as being “inclusive”- how is the Church viewed today?  Certainly exclusive… The early Faith community was all about blessing- they were incredible “givers” helping people wherever they went… “blessing the socks off people” He started a small community that was modeling the early Christians- but then it grew and attracted a lot of “church” people Call this your “Faith community” not a Church What’s dying is the pure “Attractional” church- it made a lot of sense when the culture was “looking” for a church There is no “balance” of the AND… it’s the genius of AND You will never fix church by asking how should we do church? Church is something that God builds, through disciples Sodalic- the sending part of the Church (think Paul)- charting new course, go make disciples, not go and start churches… For a church this would be Missional, decentralized, scattered- Evangelist, prophet, apostolic- this represents the smaller group/need- 15% Modalic- Make disciples- pastors, teachers, the people that remain…  After you reach people, there is the hard work of helping them…  Bigger numbers and giftedness here, 85%… more people are needed for this piece You need both Sodalic and Modalic Most seminary training is Modalic- focus on Proclamational We tend to land in Modalic land and when numbers shrink, we wonder We know you put a lot of time in your teaching, but there’s no correlation between “Church” time and people taking on the life and call of Jesus- Willow Creek Reveal study If you keep doing “Church”, the numbers going to continue to shrink Modalic first decision, second decision sodalic- first decision Navy, anyone can get in, second decision, Navy Seals- when people are running away, the Sodalic goes running in… Holiness is not coming out of or away from the world, Jesus engaged the world- was with the sinners, engaged “in” We need to work to help people in a two step process- show up, but then go and make a disciple outside 85% of our money and time go into the Modalic- we create a consumeristic need and crowd Most of the things you want and need in your Church are Incarnational, in the flesh, being the hands and feet of Christ When people sit in Modalic too long, under teaching, often they become Pharisees, judgmental 6 quick thoughts: You need both Modalic and Sodalic- who do you have on your teams?  Often we only have Modalic- Do you have Sodalic leaders on your team? God’s Church was not meant to be peaceful, it’s healthy chaos, ebb and flow managing the tension in the Modalic and Sodalic Where do I start?  Don’t start at the level of church, start at the level of disciple- what does it mean to make disciples You can do your small house church until it works- then pesky Modalic trained Christians start showing up that need to be retrained… We need to re-orientate Evangelicals back to the mission of God Reinvest more of your time and money to the Sodalic Most of us could stop doing 25% of the “dumb” stuff we do and no one will notice- we can start making a shift What you draw people with is what you’re going to draw people to become- Are you trying to build a large gathering or training and modeling? Work from where you are… Most are in Modalic- to move Sodalic- start coaching and piloting Sodalic, Kingdom mentality You may have to “stealth” for awhile, gradually working through people to transition the change Get ready for a fight in a good way…  “AND” wakes up the enemy…  You got to ask yourself do you really want the “AND”?  It’s not easy…