Are you out there?

Where are the missional thinkers and community engagement types living in and around Tarneit? I'm still looking for you, so that we might partner together in some exciting adventures. We already have the basis of a good working group going - active committed people, but we need more participants and labourers to grow stronger and more effective - with the interests and skills of each finding a greater purpose within local community functioning and strengthening. In his book An Unstoppable Force (2001), Erwin Raphael McManus bemoans those who have taught and received the very short-sighted notion that accepting Jesus is only about escaping hell and gaining heaven, without ever taking seriously the call to discipleship typified in Acts 1:8. Me too! McManus writes (p.208) that this prevailing lowest of all common denominators (my term) only offers "a bondage of mediocrity", rather than addressing the greatest level of freedom that God has for us - apostolic movement!!