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Why did you start missio dei church?

A lot of people often ask this question with the underlying thought that there are enough churches already…so why another. Good question.

We did not start Missio Dei because we thought Portland needed another church. There are a lot of good churches in Portland. We started Missio Dei because we have a unique vision to create a church that is faithful first to Jesus and then to the culture that we live in. We are not based on the traditional paradigm of church. Not that those kinds of churches are wrong or even irrelevant. They reach the kind of people that resonate with them.

Missio Dei is attracting the kind of people who want more than traditional church forms and structures. It is for people who love our city and feel comfortable and at home in bars, art galleries, political meetings, social gatherings, and the like. We think that being a follower of Jesus is about going to our culture, living in it, all the while living different lives. We don’t run or point fingers or separate from the world that Jesus loves. We go, we give, we love.