Tracing the Contours of the Kingdom
At 100M, our hope is to be a part of shifting the tracks of history from an institutional to a movemental expression of Christianity, movements of ordinary people apprenticed to Jesus in everyday life. If you’re here, you are probably longing for the same thing, but maybe also feeling the tension between what you want to see and the practices we’ve inherited.
We don’t lack conviction, but we don’t always know how to translate conviction into embodied life. We’ve embraced the language of Jesus is Lord. We resonate with missional-incarnational impulse. We sense that movement requires different paradigms and practices. But the gap between naming the shift and living the shift can feel wide.
That gap is where this new series begins.
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be walking through Kingdom Contours, written by Monica and Jeremy Chambers. We recorded this as a working conversation about what it actually looks like to take movemental theology seriously enough to let it reshape how we lead, gather, decide, and send.
The word contours is important. The Kingdom of God isn’t flat. It has shape. It confronts our assumptions about success, leadership, pace, and control. Learning to recognize those contours helps us move forward without trying to force the terrain—or flatten it to fit what we already know how to do.
What you’ll hear throughout this series is an exploration of foundations, paradigms, and tools. These conversations will return to the six elements of mDNA that we have explored in the last two series, but now we’re asking how they move from language we agree with to practices we actually embody. How do ordinary people learn to live under the lordship of Jesus in ways that lead to multiplication rather than exhaustion? How do communities form that are genuinely missional, not just busy or well-intentioned?
History shifts when enough people begin living differently over time, in real places, with real people. Movements don’t emerge from abstraction. They emerge when theology finds traction in daily life.
Our hope is that this series helps provide that traction. That it offers language, examples, and practices that help leaders and communities take responsibility for the culture they are shaping.
If you’ve been sensing that the old tracks no longer lead where you believe Jesus is going, consider this an invitation to walk with us for a while.