It’s Time to Go Out

Mike Bishop
The Message and the Way
20 min readSep 29, 2023

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Chapter 7 — The Message and the Way

Photo by Volkan Olmez on Unsplash

Jesus was an abject failure.

At least by modern church planting standards.

Let’s consider the facts. In three years, he was rabbi to only twelve young men, one of which became a traitor that got him killed. His “church” of active followers was seventy people tops. He regularly got in verbal disputes with other religious leaders which hurt his…

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Writing on faithfulness to the Way of Jesus, becoming fully-formed humanity, and the table as metaphor and praxis of being church. Oh, and a good story or two.