Sentences with phrase «missional means»

Being missional means we have to live sent here, to our place and among our people....

For me to say, «No, missional means this and you are using it wrong,» is silly (and that goes for all «users» of the word).

Not exact matches

Well, we should be living missional lives, which means every day, wherever I am, whether I'm a student, whether I'm in the workforce, wherever I am at this season, that is the place, that is the field that God has called me to.

Like lots of ideas in a culture driven by rapid trends and quick - fix solutions, missional living became, for many, a fresh means by which to fix the problems in our churches and in others.

These change from time to time — think «kingdom» and «missional» in the early 2000s and «vulnerable» and «intentionality» more recently; the list could go on and on — but the idea is the same: Solid, meaning - heavy terms slowly become catchalls for spiritual - sounding stuff.

Missional engagement in such a world means embracing the consequences of today's incidents, the events to be related in tomorrow's newspaper and other chronicles.

It means in order for us to use the word missional (and it's a perfectly good word) we're going to have to understand what different people have meant by it, and settle upon how we might use it constructively in the future.

I must confess I have taken a longer hiatus than intended from my Meanings of Missional series.

Well, I am not very good at getting my «Meanings of Missional» series out on Monday.

We'll move ahead next week, but I have learned that I need to stop promising things on Monday... so this is now an occasional series that I will call «Meaning of Missional» and post other missiological things on Monday.

Tomorrow will be the formal beginning to my «Meanings of Missional» series.

But, in all the discussion of what it means to be missional, I thought the best thing was to ask those who first used the word.

The end results, I hope, will be a clearer understanding of what different groups and people mean when they use the term «missional.»

In short, I discussed missional church in many contexts — but the word meant different things to different people.

«Missional» is a bit of a buzzword these days, and can mean different things to different people.

Others see missional as a means to mobilize church members to do missions more effectively.

Emergent leaders call for «missional re-understanding of Jesus - followership and Christ - focus imbued with passionate creativity and emotional authenticity,» whatever that means:

And just in case you don't know what «missional» means, here is some explanation.