Back on January 17th in 9Marks on Missional, I took Jonathan Leeman, Director of Communications for 9Marks, to task on his post, “Is the God of the Missional Gospel Too Small?“
Since then there has been a number of others who have entered the fray including those listed below. Together they form a pretty good critic [...]

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There has been some good private discussions going on about “experts” (in general) who pontificate on all thing missional yet don’t model it in their own lives. Michael Frost once said:
It is not any longer possible…that we sit in some command center telling other people how to go forth. I’m speaking in particular to those [...]

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In today’s newsletter from Forge Canada, their lead article is about defining missional church. The bottom-line of the piece can be summed up in this quote, “For ‘missional church’ to mean anything, it can’t mean everything.”
How true. It seems like everybody is attempting to add the term missional to the current program they are [...]

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Michael Frost says that the missional paradigm takes seriously three fundamental doctrines; 1) Missio Dei – we are called to embrace God’s mission in this world and to go with him. 2) Participatus Christo – to participate in the work of Christ; to see where Jesus is at work and to dare to step into [...]

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A common characterization of the average evangelical church among my not-yet-Christians friends and acquaintances is that it is judgmental and negative. And I’ve got to tell you that I can see why so many think this – because countless are. As Bono said, “Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.”
Here [...]

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Three O’clock People feeds and tries to help Portland’s street people. I’m part of the group and usually our team is down on the streets once a month. We always set-up at the same place and time (three o’clock) so the people know exactly where and when we will be there.

Some of us will be [...]

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Michael Craven is the guest columnist at Christian Post today where he has written an excellent article on “What is the Missional Church and Why Does it Matter?”
He rightly notes that missional has been “co-opted by those driven to maintain pace with the latest trends, techniques, and strategies” and also points out that some [...]

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Our urban neighborhood was like many others. People living in isolation with little interaction. It was a residential area, not a community. But we started a neighborhood project a number of years ago that finally got finished and has had brought dramatic positive change.

We lived in an area which had unimproved gravel streets. Since I [...]

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This is a rewrite of a post I did for the June 2008 Missional Synchroblog.
Are we merely devotees, who, as a mark of our faith, attend church weekly, participate in a bible study and often invite a friends or neighbors to join us? Or are we disciples of Jesus whose life is consumed 24/7/365 with, [...]

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Matt Stone has done a great post on Attractional vs Missional Services. It is a great post, so be sure you go over and read it.
To make his point, Matt used this illustration:

Think about it. In an attractional model, what is the primary door to the community of believers and faith? Answer: The Sunday morning [...]

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