Quotes about Missional

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.

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.

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

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.

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 other words, the church's true and authentic organizing principle is mission.