sentness
Encouraging God's people to embrace the Gospel and engage culture through a missional-incarnational posture.
God's glory, our poverty; God's grace, our 'sentness.'
Twitter @eehesse
This video is a wonderful picture of two things: Gospel-centered communities living on mission together and church as family. May God multiply these kinds of communities exponentially, for his Glory, and may it happen in my lifetime. Live sent!
Where Does ‘Sentness’ Come From?
If one of our goals is to see every believer on mission with Jesus, sent as Jesus was sent, to make disciples who make disciples who make disciples, how does that happen? From where does this missionary impulse come? What’s the starting point? Where does sentness come from?
Welcome To My New Blog
Today’s the start of something small but also something I hope will grow. I’ve started a blog. Finally! Nothing like being 10 years behind the times, right? Thanks to those of you who have encouraged me to do this for years now.
My hope is that this blog might be an intersection of the Gospel and culture. The title “sentness” refers to the result of the Gospel being fully embraced in the life of a believer. There is much talk these days about being missional and much of that talk is divorced from the Gospel. I believe that true missional living, every believer a missionary, is the fruit of understanding and appropriating the Gospel—Christ crucified, buried, raised to life. As an apple tree always produces apples, the Gospel always produces missional “sentness.” If there isn’t the smell of missional sentness about a believer’s life then maybe they don’t really understand the Gospel. At a retreat in Estes Park, CO earlier this year it was put like this…
The default posture of every believer is one of sentness. If you lack sentness, you lack Jesus.
Hopefully the words written here, the pictures and videos posted will be an encouragement to God’s Church and further the mission of Christ and His Kingdom—all to the glory of God.
