Dream Awakener

Everybody lives by a script. Everybody is shaped by story. As the people of God living in the world, we are called to inhabit God’s story in such a way that we are a blessing to our neighbors. We must immerse ourselves in the scriptures to the point that God’s word fills us and shapes us to have the capacity to inhabit His story in the neighborhood for the sake of the neighborhood.

A missional community is a group of people who are enacting God’s story in concrete and local ways. They recognize that the scriptures were written to not only help us to believe the right things (orthodoxy) but that we might live in the right way (orthopraxy). They recognize that if we are going to live faithfully in the story of God, we need to develop communal rhythms that develop a discipleship ethos and enable us to live differently. For it is practice that transforms us, not simply knowledge. 

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