mission strategy: shut up and listen!

I can't even begin to describe how much I resonate with this video clip. Because the whole time I was listening to him, I kept thinking about the way churches operate a lot of the time. The have their key values all ready to go, have their blueprint already set up for the machine to get running and preaching series ready and waiting to sniff out any private heresies.

But what about really paying attention to where the people are at first? What about taking people with you by meeting them where they are? What about listening well first so that we can express the character of God to people in a way that actually helps them?

Shut up and listen ecclesiology. I like it.