Quotes About Missional

Discipleship in the church today has more to do with consuming and absorbing cognitive content than it has anything to do with missional action.

Developing coaches (leaders of leaders) may be the single most overlooked yet vital task in spreading a missional movement.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

The roots of 20th century American fundamentalism can be discerned in the confluence of these two streams of immigration, culture, and history. A unique American expression of evangelical Christianity emerged—profoundly democratic, anti-royalist and anti-clerical, militant and missional, convinced that God was naturally on the side of Americans. Any who disagreed might be suspected of being on some side other than God's.

It is one thing to create a countercultural community or a Christian subculture, but it is a much more difficult thing to live as an incarnational-missional communitas in the midst of a culture and not be bound by its dictates and decrees: to be in it, not of it, but not out of it either. When

So a working definition of missional church is a community of God's people that defines itself, and organizes its life around, its real purpose of being an agent of God's mission to the world. In

Left to their own devices, most organizations tend toward a sort of sociological conservatism that will increasingly forgo engagement with their context in favor of preserving what they see as their repository of inherited ideas. In other words, they turn away from missional engagement and toward an increasingly traditionalist, sentimental interpretation of reality. Instead of looking forward to a possible future of which they are called to be a part, they look back to an idealized past.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

become part of culture, proclaim the Good News, be the presence of Christ, and contextualize biblical life and church for that culture—they are missional churches.

Missional churches act faithfully and intentionally wherever God gives them opportunity.

Being missional means moving intentionally beyond our church preferences, making missional decisions rather than preferential decisions.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

Second, an incarnational missional life is evangelistic. Just as Jesus did not merely come only to do good works for the needy but primarily to save lost people, Jesus' people are likewise to pursue lost people for evangelistic friendships.174

Corporate worship is to be missional.

The atonement is designed by God to restore cracked Eikons into glory-producing Eikons by participation in the perfect Eikon, Jesus Chirst, who redeems the cosmos. To be an Eikon, then, is to be charged with a theocentric and missional life. Prior to the fall, Adam and Eve did what they were supposed to do: they "eikoned." And cracked Eikons are being restored so that they can eikon now and so that they will eikon forever.

Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.'

A missional church does not exist in order to grow. Growth may occur but that is not the goal of ecclesial existence. Service, as proclaimers and doers/disciples of The Word, is the purpose of our being called together.

the same apostle Paul was sure that if the church in Corinth would worship God aright, any unbeliever who came into their meeting would "fall down and worship God, exclaiming, 'God is really among you' " (1 Cor. 14:25). That's missional praise.

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

In particular, the rich tradition of intentional Christian community that is also inherently missional needs to be more fully celebrated, imitated, and reimagined for its relevance to more standard forms of being the church.

palabra «misional» se entiende de una manera distinta cuando describe la naturaleza de la iglesia. En el mejor de los casos, no describe una actividad específica, sino la misma esencia e identidad de la iglesia cuando, en el contexto de su cultura, asume el rol que le corresponde en el relato de Dios y participa en la misión de Dios en el mundo.

A Missional Community is a group of approximately 20 to 40 people who are seeking to reach a particular neighborhood or network of relationships with the good news of Jesus. The group functions as a flexible, local expression of the church and has the expressed intention of seeing those they are in relationship with become followers of Jesus with them. They exist to see God's Kingdom come to their friends and neighbors.

The problem is that we don't have a "missional" problem or a leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem. If you know how to disciple people well, you will always get mission. Always.

The goal is not to run a program called "Missional Community." The goal is to learn how to function as an extended family on mission.