1. Radical Hospitality Practicing HOPE
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
Radical Hospitality
Practicing
HOPE
PrentissLowe Productions present Radical Sending: Mt. Everest, the Church and the Base Camp.
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2. Radical Sending: The Base Camp, God’s Good News & Being Sent
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
Radical Sending:
The Base Camp,
God’s Good News
& Being Sent
PrentissLowe Productions present Radical Sending: Mt. Everest, the Church and the Base Camp.
Demi Prentiss - Life & Leadership Coach

3. Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015). www
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
Trekking
But the base camp is not the destination. It is a way station for the hikers on their journeys.
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4. Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015). www
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
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Being Equipped
To make the trek, the hiker especially needs to be will equipped.
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5. Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015). www
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
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At the Basecamp
Base camps support the hikers in many ways, among them food, guidance, support, equipment, affirmation, shared stories, rest and recuperation.
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6. Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015). www
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
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Everest Base camps
Whoever treks Mt. Everest or any high mountain needs one or more base camps along the route. They are the watering holes, the safe places along the journey, necessary for the hike and the hikers. Here are several base camps for Everest climbers, located at strategic places for the climb.
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7. What do you need from your base camp?
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
What do you need from your base camp?
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8. The Church as A Base Camp
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
The Church as A Base Camp
One image that may be useful is that of the church as a base camp for a hiking expedition. This is a fruitful image for the church.
The church is a base camp in which a community of people gathers to reflect on life, be reminded of their identity, and make plans for exploration. From there, each person goes out during the week to take on that part of the mountain that is theirs to explore. The base camp exists to serve the climbing team. In itself, it is neither the goal of the expedition nor the mountain itself. The value of this image is that it affirms the importance of the community and institution but it does not mistake the institution for the central reality.
Let’s consider a metaphor: the local congregation as a base camp. Reflect on those things which a base camp provides: food, guidance, support, equipment, affirmation, shared stories. Are they not similar to what a local congregation might provide its members/hikers? [Note: Read this slide.]
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9. The hikers don’t exist for the good of the base camp.
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
The hikers don’t exist for the good of the base camp.
The base camp exists for the good of the hikers.
The implications of this view of the church’s role for working people are clear. The church needs to focus on its timeless tasks: it is to be a place of worship, education, and community. But it also needs to evaluate how well it is empowering people for the work on the mountain those other six days.
The church exists for the people, not the reverse.
People deserve our help in making help of all seven days.
The Rev. Dr. Steve Jacobsen
Hearts to God, Hands to Work, Alban Institute
Sometimes a congregation gets this reversed, that the hikers/the members are there to make the base camp, the congregation, run better. We need to remember that the base camp exists for the good of the hikers. The hikers don’t exist for the base camp. [Note: Read this slide.]
What on our list of base camp essentials does not apply to the church?
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10. What base camp support do people need from your congregation?
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
What base camp support do people need from your congregation?
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11. Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015). www
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you. John 20:21
No mistaking – we are sent people. Christ is very clear about that.
Final discourse – Jesus is sending his disciples into world –
John 14:  Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.
15 “If you love me, you will keep[f] my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate,[g] to be with you forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in[h] you.
18 “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.
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12. Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015). www
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
Matthew 28:18-20
18-20 Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: “God authorized and commanded me to commission you:
Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.”
(The Message)
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13. Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015). www
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
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Take my yoke upon you . . .
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14. Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015). www
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
Luke 10: 1-9; 17
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two[a] others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 3 Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. 4 Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road.
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15. Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015). www
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
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Luke 10 (cont.)
5 Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’ 6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you. 7 And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house. 8 Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. 9 Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
…. 17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
(English Standard Version)
So what was the Good News?
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16. Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015). www
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
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How might a congregation live into this model of sending, welcoming back, and celebrating?
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17. In formation? In worship? In pastoral care? In communication?
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
In formation? In worship? In pastoral care? In communication?
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18. Break Post-its to share Insights A-ha’s Questions Resources
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
Break
Post-its to share
Insights
A-ha’s
Questions
Resources
But the base camp is not the destination. It is a way station for the hikers on their journeys.
Demi Prentiss - Life & Leadership Coach

19. In formation? In worship? In pastoral care? In communication?
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
In formation? In worship? In pastoral care? In communication?
Demi Prentiss - Life & Leadership Coach

21. ¶ 122. The Process for Carrying Out Our Mission
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
¶ 122. The Process for Carrying Out Our Mission
We make disciples as we:
Proclaim the gospel, seek, welcome and gather persons into the body of Christ;
Lead persons to commit their lives to God through baptism by water and the spirit and profession of faith in Jesus Christ;
Nurture persons in Christian living through worship, the sacraments, spiritual disciplines, and other means of grace, such as Wesley's Christian conferencing;
Send persons into the world to live lovingly and justly as servants of Christ by healing the sick, feeding the hungry, caring for the stranger, freeing the oppressed, being and becoming a compassionate, caring presence, and working to develop social structures that are consistent with the gospel; and
Continue the mission of seeking, welcoming and gathering persons into the community of the body of Christ.
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23. Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015). www
Radical Sending: Go to Love and Serve (Morehouse, 2015).
2/10/2017
Our calling to be Christ’s eyes, ears, hands and feet, to be salty and light-hearted Christians. (Matthew 5: 13-16)
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