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• Has the Church Lost its Mission? Part II – How Jürgen Moltmann can help expand our mission horizons

  By Joel Plotnek on July 2, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Is our theology hampering our mission and use of church buildings? How might we lift our vision to reach our world? 5 minutes read

• Has the Church Lost its Mission? Part I – How church buildings cause mission drift

  By Joel Plotnek on June 25, 2021 • ( 4 )

  

  Church growth and Christian mission are seen as synonymous in the 21st century. But the western church is loosing ground rapidly. We have lost our mission because we are asking the wrong questions! 4 minutes read

• When the Church Left the Building – reflections on COVID-19 and the digital streamed church from Bonhoeffer’s Gestapo “lock down”

  By Joel Plotnek on June 11, 2021 • ( 5 )

  

  What happened to the church when we left the building in COVID-19 lockdown? Are we still the church when we meet online fragmented by time and space? Dietrich Bonhoeffer helps us think through these questions writing under Nazi persecution of the Confessing Church in Germany. 7 minutes read