Beliefs in Action

‘But when we are in the context of mission (or post-Christendom),

what we are saying no longer makes sense to people

who are not Christians. Beliefs, when separated from

practices, have over time become rote for Christians. The way

they are articulated loses touch with real life because they have

not been enfleshed in daily living. This is why, when renewing

the church (or planting it over again) in mission, the church

must refocus on cultivating the practices of Jesus among

a people. Beliefs cannot make sense to people outside the church

without seeing the belief lived in practice.‘

-David Fitch (What is the Church?)