CRM - Empowering Leaders

Sweeping change defines the cultural landscape of the Western world in general and the United States in particular. These changes are profound and exceedingly complicated. They present to the church a whole new set of variables, and opportunities, never before experienced.

The church must at this moment, as it has so many times in its past, boldly make striking changes in the way it views itself, in the way if serves, and in the way it becomes God’s faithful expression of the good news.

The church on the corner and in the strip mall, has, in so many quarters simply ceased engaging the culture with a relevant, courageous, attractive and clear message that fills the current values void.

At a seminal level, we don’t believe that missional ministry is tied to a specific form of church. You can be into “mega church, house church, multi-cite church, emerging, traditional, or cell model.”  It doesn’t matter. They can all be ineffective and sterile, or they can be faithful and fruitful in engaging the world with a tangible presence of the Gospel. 

To us, the difference lies not in our programs, presentation, or how we chose to “gather.”  The difference is how we “go” and the habits of our people who go with us.    To be “missional” means we must be incarnational rather than attractional in orientation.  If we are incarnational, people will follow us anywhere we take them, and the church will grow.  This means that every church and every leader can increase their level of missionality in any form or mode of church.   

We also believe in linking the sodalic (apostolic pioneering) with the modalic (establishing local church forms) is a critical long-term outcome. Due to the neutral position of CRM and Missio, we can partner with organizations, denominations, and seminaries without limiting the freedom or creating structures that could hinder either mode. We envision a sodalic–modalic cycle connected through developing and sending trained, empowered, and proven missional leaders that denominations, para-church groups, seminaries, and local churches can all celebrate together.

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