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Thoughts In the past ministers were trained to do more pastoral care work because most people had as their starting point a Christian worldview or a plausability structure that interpreted the world through a Christian lens. This is not to say that the world was Christian or that even that it acted Christian. But for the most part society was shaped by morals and beliefs that were derived from Christianity. Therefore, it was perceived by the church, that there was not a huge need for missionary work within the Western world. So the focus of the church was on maintaining the body, which of course led to a predominantly pastoral care focused ministry. However, in today's context, leadership needs to be focused more on missional work. Because the reigning plausability structures are not Christians. Instead the lens from which people view life is derived from a plurality of places. The greater needs in today's context involve missional work and the theological implications involved in sorting through this changing culture and shifting plausability structures. Every move has a story. And every story has an end. - Ben Harper Church should be geared in such a way that more ministry is done by the body (the priesthood of believers) in their worlds than ministry that is done on by the "Sunday" church. The Kingdom of God. What are the implications for me in living in the Kingdom of God? How do I get there?