"Missional communities" refers to groups of people who come together with the purpose of sharing their faith and serving others in their communities. They aim to live out the teachings of their faith in practical ways, showing love and kindness to others.
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Much has been written about nurturing
missional communities in urban settings, where missions of justice and mercy can often be accomplished with or without the help critics.
But I am convinced that the churches that will be most effective in recapturing their life
as missional communities will discover their identities at the margins.
Overshadowing the sense of crisis, however, has been a contagious sense of opportunity — a belief that the time is right for churches to reshape themselves as
thoroughly missional communities.
We are savoring a summer of quiet afternoons, with baking pies and browsing libraries, weekly gatherings with a
local Missional Community, exploring local parks and playgrounds in the cool mornings, and hiking trails around mountain passes and coastal beaches on Calvin's days off.
They're feeding the poor, living in community and planting authentic churches — or
missional communities — all to the glory of God.
Gerard and Chrissie live in Normandy, France, where Bless is developing
a missional community.
Café churches, network churches, new congregations within existing churches and
missional communities will all be deployed as a way of reaching the 91 % of Londoners who don't go to church.
Because we are «sent,» we are
a missional community, not a church focused on our own survival.
I haven't used it yet, but I have looked over a copy and it seems like it would be a great primer for anyone who wants to get up to speed on the values and mission of
any missional community.
Missional communities (groups of 20 - 50) on the other hand do community, local missional engagement, training and discipling well.
Are you aware of any «missional - attractional» churches in your area that see the large - group gathering as «optional» and
the missional community involvement as the focus and core of the church?
It plays its role and it is clearly subordinated to
the missional community in the life of the church.
I could get involved in a «megachurch» like this where
the missional communities are the core, and the attractional gathering is the optional meeting.
A quick search on Google uncovers the presence of «
missional communities,» «missional leaders,» «missional worship,» even «missional seating,» and «missional coffee.»