Alan Hirsch and the DNA of Gospel movements : Part 4 – Missional incarnational impulse
A seven-part short video series on the church
What dynamics lead to rapid, indigenous multiplication of the Gospel?
In this seven-part video series, Alan Hirsch introduces the DNA of Gospel Movements. This Missional DNA, or mDNA, is made up of six elements, each working together to bring about the advance of the gospel.
Video #4 - Missional incarnational impulse
We have come to see that mission is not merely an activity of the church. It is the result of God's initiative, rooted in his desire to restore and heal creation. Mission means "sending" and is the central biblical theme describing God's action in human history. This sending is embodied and lived out in the missional impulse. It is the outward movement rooted in God's mission that compels the church to reach a lost world.
The central thrust of the incarnation was that by becoming one of us, God was able to achieve redemption for the human race and radical identification with all that it means to be human. If God's way of reaching his world was to incarnate himself in Jesus Christ then our way of reaching the world should likewise be incarnational.
We need to exercise a genuine identification with those we are trying to reach so that they may come to know God through Jesus. The following framework is an example of how Jesus relates to us through the incarnation and how we can relate incarnationally to others.
In his book, The Forgotten Ways, he defines the different elements of a movement, how they interact, and how we in the West can recover this ethos.
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