Evangelical: Missional: Bob Robinson's incarnational-missional take on today's task

Bob Robinson

Incarnational - Missional Ministry

Says pastor Bob --


My passion is to invite people into the life and purposes of Jesus, and then equip them to live out what God intends for them in every aspect of this life, bringing God's good intentions into a hurting world.

I currently engage students with the gospel of Jesus Christ and His Kingdom on college campuses and serve as venue pastor for an experiential worship service.

Thus does missionary to students, Bob R, present his work and vision in core, current, invigorating words.  With his text, the pastor - preacher - teacher, presents a near-screenfull pix of himself.  here's the list of spheres of endeavor with which Bob identifies himself.  The link

that is strongest in attracting my curiosity about Bob and

his contribution -- incarnational and missional, in his own

conception -- is at the bottom of the blue list below.  Bob

Robinson refers us to the Friend of Kuyper website, 

preceded on the list by the website of Jackson Friends Church [in the Quaker tradition], particularly the experiential church service called the Gathering -- extensions of the Church thru its '" "college and young adult ministries."  The latter include sports activities of basketball, volleyball, softball baseball, and golf.  Programs for adults -- elders? -- too.  The pastor of the Jackson Friends Church is David Tobbs.  The rev presents himself and the church:


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Oh yeah, Jackson Friends Church has a business ministry called the Java House Cafe and Bistro, mainly an in-house business plus a rental venue for your event.

•  vanguardchurch.com
•  vanguardchurch.blogspot.com
•  ccojubilee.org
•  jacksonfriends.org
•  friendofkuyper.blogspot.com

Bob's page is syndicated, take a look.

More on Bob:  In 2005, Bob accepted the position with the Coalition for Christian Outreach to supervise and mentor campus ministry staff placed strategically on university and college campuses, and to create cooperative ministries with churches, colleges and community organizations to reach the students at all the schools in the northern region of Ohio.

Starting in 2009, Bob moved his ministry directly onto the college campus, reaching out to college students as a CCO Campus Minister. After a year on the main campus of Kent State University, he has moved his focus of ministry closer to his home, reaching out to Kent State’s Stark campus, Stark State College, and Malone University [a Quaker evangelical-protestant institution of Christian hier education]. Bob’s CCO ministry is in a partnership with Jackson Friends Church, where he serves as the Pastor for College and Young Adults. At Jackson Friends Church, Bob is the venue pastor for the “CURRENT” worship service, co-leads a Sunday-morning college class, is developing a college weeknight gathering at the Java House and Bistro, and is starting an intramural sports program for the area colleges at the church’s community sports complex.

Above i've borrowed freely from textual material on the

websites to which there were links handy, rather perhaps at my finger tips.

The Holistic Christianity of Reconciliation

God’s Mission and Our Mission of Reconciliation
God’s mission through Christ is to reconcile all things back to himself (Colossians 1:20). This begins when he “reconciled us to himself through Christ,” and continues when we, as his “ambassadors,” perform “the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:17-20).
The Hebraic understanding is that “God is One” which undergirds the Christian view is that Jesus Christ is the Lord of all things.


The problem, however, is that the evangelical Church in North America has embraced a Greek (Plato and Aristotle) understanding of reality that separates the sacred from the secular. This false worldview led to the Gnostic heresy of the early Church, and in the 21st Century, the North American evangelical Church accepts a neo-gnostic understanding of reality. Alan Roxburgh writes, “Gnostic movements have always sought to dematerialize and spiritualize Jesus, limiting God’s engagement to some inner, spiritual experience that is disembodied from most of the public and material engagement of the world.”


Here N. T. Wright explains the gnostic heresy:


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N.T. Wright on Gnosticism

Alan Hirsch correctly states, “There is no such thing as sacred and secular in biblical worldview. It can conceive of no part of the world that does not come under the claim of Yahweh’s lordship.”

The evangelical Church has neglected the Hebraic understanding of life in favor of the dualistic view that separates the secular from the sacred. Instead of seeing its ministry in terms of “the reconciliation of all things,” it sees its ministry in terms of growing and managing its own institutional life. As Alan Hirsch points out, it sees its ministry as the “mediating institution” between the sacred and the secular. The diagram below shows this mistaken idea of the church’s mediating position between the sphere of God and the sphere of the world.

If we are to revitalize our ministry of reconciliation, we must no longer see the church as a mediating institution. Rather, we must see our ministry as the equipping and empowering of God’s people to be God’s agents of the reconciliation of all things back to God in Christ. Jesus is Lord of all.

(diagrams adapted from Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways)