Floyd on simple church

Floyc McClung, who pioneered YWAM in Amsterdam, and currently trains simple church planters in Cape Town, South Africa, returned to the Netherlands for a seminar on 'the future of the church'. He did a pretty good job in pointing out the paradigm shifts we need to become a truly missional Kingdom movement. He quoted a lot from Hirsch and Frost's 'The Shaping of Things to Come', illustrated with stories from his own experience.

Not sure though whether the evangelical leaders who turned up got the real reformation message. Floyd is so kind and generously embracing (which is why we all love him), that he tends to just rub the surface.

The most striking example though came in reply to a question asked: "How did you turn a prophetic megachurch like Metro Christian Fellowship in Kansas City to a missional movement?" The answer was clear: in the five years that he pastored this church he wasn't able to really change the set-up or DNA, apart from impacting a few individuals. He said most Christians didn't want their kids to go into missions (too dangerous), and one lady remarked: "Are you serious about inviting non-Christians into our house and thus defiling our home that we just dedicated in prayer to the Lord?"