| Figure 4 Notes The Missional community must be both centered and bounded. "The centered-set congregation invites people onto a journey with Jesus in order to understand its contours, to hear its stories, to sort out the issues and questions of commitment and discipleship." "The journey, as a pilgrim people, calls for commitments to practices of the reign of God that can be made only in covenant. Such practices need to be encountered and demonstrated so that people might see the implications of the journey. The covenant community is a bounded set composed of those who have chosen to take on the commitment, practices, and disciplines that make them a distinct missionary community." "People in a covenant community commit themselves to a set of disciplines within the reality of their everyday callings as spouses, children, siblings, workers who live in neighborhoods and the larger community."
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