So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church
Lecture by Leonard Sweet
Furman University
April 6, 2009

Leonard spoke with students, church leaders, and folks at Furman University about rebooting the church and reclaiming the original operating system designed in Acts 2 and Genesis. Below are notes I took, a few awwhaa moments that I would like to share with you:

Using the metaphor of a M.R.I., he says the church must be:
Missional – FOLLOW JESUS
We must move from being attractional to missional.
We must “come to church in order to go out into the world.” We are existing as places [churches] that are worn out instead of sent out.
Two thirds of the word is “Go”
We need to view all of life to be our mission field.
Our baptism is a passport to our missionary work! God made us for mission.

Relational – MAKING DISCIPLES
We must change our mode of operation from propositional to relational.
God did not send us a propositioning person in Jesus Christ
What is it means to follow truth means to follow the life of Christ

Incarnational – FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD
We are called to move from “colonial to incarnational”
God wants us to be the radical incarnation of Christ, an incarnational nature of change.