The prestigious and mainline Leadership Journal has its theme, Going Missional for its Winter 2007 issue. Chad Hull wrote Missional: Possible Steps to transform a consumer church into a missional church.
In his article, Hull quoted Mike Breen
Mike Breen, pastor at Community Church of Joy near Phoenix, Arizona, believes the missional church is something very old, very fundamental, and very much at the core of what it means to be church.
"Missional church is radical only in the sense that radical means root," he says. "The missional church is rooted in not just the New Testament church of Acts, but in the mission of Jesus himself. A missional church lives out the church's three-dimensional calling: to be upwardly focused on God in worship that is passionate; to be inwardly focused on community among believers that is demonstrated in relationships of love and compassion; and to be outwardly focused on a world that does not yet know God."
This is something for us to think about. Missional possible or mission impossible?
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