A good friends of mine, Todd Adams, called me a while back to see if I could co-host a workshop with him at our conference's upcoming young adult retreat, Divine Rhythm.  We decided to focus on the topic of the missional church.  We quickly began to realize that many of our UMC's might not exactly be missional.  Now, just like 'postmodernism' has been defined in a million and one different ways, so has the 'missional church'.  So we are starting with a operating definition of the missional church as outwards focused (that's the nutshell version).  So we started asking, how can we motivate the young adults in our conference to start reviving their churches?  The first step in this experiment is a website that we hope will be a hub for young adults seeking to turn the UMC on its head with a revolutionary outward focused love that seeks the least the last and the lost.  So check it out:  www.missionalumc.com  And visit back there often as we will be blogging, posting resources and videos, and attempting to light a fire under the young adults of our conference.

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