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How might family ministry help our disconnected culture find connections, rather than making the disconnectedness worse through excluding the marginalized due to an inward-focused ministry emphasis?

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Coolest Sentence 62

Active mission takes risks, engages the culture as a full participant in bringing about healing solutions to human pain, and proclaims with authority the gospel of Jesus Christ based on the incarnational platform of credibility for a life lived well.

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Everything is on the table within the parameters of orthodoxy and orthopraxy so that the mission of making disciples might bear great fruit for God's glory in ever-increasing measure.

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However, people in the world will be moved by the narratives of kindness, sacrifice, humility and giving which are beginning to emerge in the stories we share; they may even be moved to believe, so long as we share with authenticity the life of Christ, rather than revert to second and third tier theological priorities which usually only distract, rather than instruct.

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There can be a high level of awkwardness, even in Christian homes (especially in US American Evangelicalism, and certainly mainline and non-denomination contexts as well), when it comes to living out a lifestyle of discipleship which permeates the whole of our daily lives.

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I strongly feel that the placement of children's ministry at cross purposes with family ministry is an unnecessary and unhelpful false dichotomy which creates unhealthy tension, rather than constructive integrative ministry expression.

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In close cooperation with parents and families, let's develop and model practices and routines which are realistic and sustainable for families.

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