Greg Boyd writes an interesting post in Leadership Out Of Ur on being missional toward liberals.
What do you do when everyone who comes to your church watches the O'Reilly factor on Fox?
Boyd asks,
How can we be a church that allows people to have their politics and ideology, but also welcomes people from other viewpoints to be a part of the same church? (All of this assumes we want to reach those who are unlike us, which for some may not be the goal.)
Boyd suggests a common starting point
A starting point might be to focus on some common ground issues, such as; domestic violence, sexual exploitation, racism, poverty, injustice…
Boooo.
I have a great idea. Why not focus on union life in Christ instead? Preach how to be united with Christ. Pray continually to be a missional, kingdom focused church. And be incarnational. Be around others who don't necessarily think like you do. Let them experience Christ in you. Christ is quite attractive to people.
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