The Parable of the Marathon

How Running a Marathon Reflects the Challenges and Rewards of Living as a Missional Church

This devotion is a bit longer than usual.

During the January term of my first year in seminary, I took a class called The Missional Church. One of the assignments was to create a metaphor for the “Missional Church.”

The concept behind the Missional Church movement is a shift in how we think about doing and being. We do not merely do missions; the church,…