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Maybe not the enemy, but of the enemy…

Posted on July 24th, 2006 by TK

The Internet Monk posts an interesting piece, The Missionary Headache, on the presence of missionaries TO America. I have NO idea who he is talking about. Please read it and enlighten me. If he’s talking about the post-modern movement people, (Willow Creek, etc), I strongly believe that they are the ones who need a missionary.
Michael writes:

….That church in Chicago really messed with the way I thought about church. They were being “missional” before anyone knew the word. They were the “new way of thinking” that is now going on all around us.

The difference is that we aren’t applauding or helping or praying for these new missionaries in America. A lot of evangelicals are scared to death of what they are doing and the thinking behind it. Some evangelicals believe these missionaries are the enemy. They are fisking their web sites, negatively reviewing their books and giving the snarky head-shake to their successes….

They are missionaries to America. They are all around you. And there are more coming. God is sending them, because God isn’t invested in church culture, church staff or church buildings. The church of Jesus is a cross-cultural movement of church planting. It is a missional movement. Read more

“Some evangelicals believe these missionaries are the enemy.” Well, that would describe me, partially. I believe that these missionaries are self-proclaimed missionaries, not likely sent by God but by their own reasonings. I don’t believe they are THE enemy, but they are suiting The Enemy’s purpose to make sure that we are not found strong in the grace that is Christ Jesus. I don’t purposely point out those churches anymore…been there, done that. However, I’ll keep the message of those missionaries away from my children, out of my home and out of our church. (Yes, I realize that the message of “Just give me Jesus” is already everywhere and my kids have heard it a million times). I’ll also keep bringing the unchurched to my church because they often actually WANT to hear the gospel preached in the ancient style, away from the trapping of the post-modern movement.