The last Sunday we attended our former church the “missional pastor” spoke. He’s the one we quoted in the letter, he’s the one who quoted emergent authors with no warnings. It’s been several months, and he has been out of the country being missions oriented. The church was also having a campaign to raise money, and also had special Christmas messages. So, when I saw he spoke, I really wanted to see what was up. Interesting, he had no more footnotes, no more citing authors. If you want to know his influences you have to ask (hoping he’d be honest) or try to figure it out for yourself somehow.
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Sounds like he doesn’t like to be questioned?
Yeah, that’s my interpretation Okie. Of course, others might say no. I say it’s very sad, he is trying to avoid people doing what I did. I didn’t just find all this stuff online, they said things at church that bothered me. I began to read some articles by authors they mentioned in sermons. Or, I would take a phrase and plug it into google. Up would pop all this positive stuff, but if you read it you learn a lot (when you are trying to listen with a discerning ear). Just put in the terms Michael Frost and Missional. You get a youtube that defines missional. Since the pastor used Michael Frost in a sermon, this pastor is considered to be the “missional” pastor at our former church AND was speaking about story and mission, I looked this up. This ended up being one of the points I made. Listening to what Michael Frost claims “missional” or “missio deo” means scares me, and so when we confronted this in a letter we expected a retraction of sorts. We were told we were misinterpreting, were making conclusions and connecting dots. We were not told there was anything wrong with what Michael Frost said.