{"id":389,"date":"2014-01-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graceground.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2014-01-12T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T23:39:11","slug":"re-imagining-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/re-imagining-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"18 Questions for Re-Imagining the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I spent a few posts this week (Questioning the Church<\/a>, Extreme Church Makeover<\/a>, What if You Were God?<\/a>) talking about how you and your church and figure out what God wants you to do in your community with your time, energy, and money.<\/p>\n

Part of this process involves imagining different ways of being church, different ways of loving others, and different ways of serving our neighbors.<\/p>\n

Some people calling this “casting vision” but in my opinion, the word “vision” is one of those overused churchy buzzwords which makes most people gag. So following the ideas presented in books by Walter Brueggemann<\/a> and Greg Boyd<\/a>, I invite you to imagine what the church can be and do.<\/p>\n

Imagine new ways of being the church, living within the Kingdom of God, loving others, serving the needy, and revealing Jesus Christ to others.<\/p>\n

Here are some great “What if” questions to move you in the right direction<\/a>: (Note: So I don’t pull a Driscoll… These 18 questions for re-imagining the church originally came from a post by Kevin Bussey in 2008, but I can no longer find that post.)<\/p>\n

What would happen if…<\/h2>\n