“Missional” has become a Christian buzzword. Every church is believes in evangelism now considers itself missional. Missional, like other historic terms such as evangelical, charismatic, and baptist, has lost its distinctive meaning. But among evangelical churches, the Emerging Church may be the closest to a true missional church.
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It seems that most things don’t move at the speed I would like them to: getting my children to bed is too much of a challenge, shopping with my family takes entirely too long, check-out counters and cars are always moving too slow. There is no question about it, I’m impatient (and these are just the little things in life!). I’ve never really thought much about my impatience. In fact, many times I’ve justified my impatience as “righteous impatience” because I’m just trying to do what is right by getting my kids to bed on time! But then I read John Piper’s Battling Unbelief and I see my impatience for what it is: another sin.
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