The Relational Mission

I think we have finally completed the manuscript for Introducing the Missional Church. It feels like a huge weight has been lifted off my back. I cannot wait to send it to the editor tonight. The writing of this book has been a great education. I feel like I should have a Ph.D. as a result. It has transformed my imagination. Now we get to pull together all the tools that see connected to the book and I get to return to writing Missional Small Groups. What fun!

Last week I was in San Antonio and had a bit of time to walk about the Alamo. I had done so years ago, but I was in college and I don't think I could appreciate the gravity of what transpired on that plot of ground. It was a bit weird for me to walk around in the very place where things transpired that shaped history in significant ways. There a little under 200 volunteers stood for something in which they believed against all odds of victory and impending death. They fought for independence from Mexico, but the reality is that they did not really know what they were fighting for. They did not have great philosophical leaders like those who led the American Colonies to fight for independence from England. They did not have a clear picture of the future of Texas. They only know that what they had been experiencing was not working. And the fact is that many of the volunteers did not even have a first hand experience of the Mexican government because they were part of Davy Crockett...