Should We Be Deconstructing? - SUMMER REPLAY

Well, let's give it its moment in the sun in a non-comic way.

Just for a second, let's leave aside the very unfortunate double entendre.

Wow.

Nobody's ever invited me into this, so thank

you.

Why did you think that presenting your church as something that was broken and yet also whole?

Mm-hmm.

Was going to be a helpful way to conceive of the mission of your church.

How does that help us think about our present moment?

Well, it's one of the reasons why we picked the name mosaic at all because what is a mosaic but bits and pieces and fragments that really, if you just scatter them about, they don't really look like they belong together.

They all look like just broken shards, just pieces, fragments.

There's nothing that's whole or unified about them.

But in the hands of a master artist, those broken fragments can be assembled into something that really is beautiful and that could not be what it is apart from all of these small pieces coming together.

And I think that really is the Bible's picture of what God's family in Christ looks like, both at a universal and global level, I mean global and historic level, and also at the very least aspirationally

at

every local level.

instance or expression

of

God's family in the church.

So that's why we felt like something like that was a good picture, was because it's very easy for us to think that the church should really...

I think that Maybe this is a southern thing.

I don't know.

Maybe it's not.

But I do think that there is – Like

overcooking green beans.