Missional Shift or Drift?
a Leadership Survey Report by Helen Lee | ChristianityToday.com
Research shows that pastors’ views of the gospel and mission are changing. But should we celebrate or repent?
In the summer of 2000, Mike Lueken had every reason to be proud as a pastor of Oak Hills Church in Folsom, California. Every Sunday, thousands of people flocked to Oak Hill’s sixteen acre campus with its 35,000-square-foot facility, and the church was doing everything that a thriving, suburban megachurch with a $2 million budget was supposed to do. But then Lueken took a class at Fuller Seminary taught by Dallas Willard. The experience led to a complete change of course for him and Oak Hills Church.
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Lueken’s story illustrates the change occurring among today’s pastors, change that reflects new—or renewed—interest in a fuller picture of the gospel and in a sense of mission.