Here is a great article in Christianity Today addressing the question, what makes a church missional? It provides both background material and current misuses of the term.
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As I stated in an earlier post, I’m working through Scot McKnight’s Embracing Grace with my Sr. Highers. Today I came across a quote that I won’t comment upon, but should be savored by everyone:
“The Church is not a collection of random individuals who happen each to believe in Jesus Christ, who happen to be working out “their own salvation,” who happen to be living in proximity to one another, who happen to enjoy the same preachers and musicians and liturgy, and who happen to affirm the same doctrinal convictions. The Church is a community of faith wherein humans are “re-communioned” to one another” (p. 73).
