Missional

Clarifying the term missional can only happen if we reduce the jargon, not increase it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have a continuing concern that the term missional has become over used and wrongly used. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My own journey to what I call missional-ecumenism has followed a path of re-understanding what the church has taught in previous centuries, especially in the early centuries, that began when I plainly began to see that things I misunderstood where the very things I assumed to be correct. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I have a continuing concern that the term missional has become over used and wrongly used. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't know how long the word missional has been in use. ❋ Alex Tang (2010)

When I use the word missional, I mean that the primary place where most of the activity of the church occurs is not supposed to be in a building. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Reimagining Church notes that "the word missional is in vogue today in some Christian circles." ❋ Rick Meigs (2008)

Somehow I fear that the word missional is often misunderstood merely as "social justice." ❋ Unknown (2008)

• JR's incredible online primer / index on / of "missional" -- so much in one place. ~ link ❋ Unknown (2008)

Students and faculty who identify as missional/emergent will furtively gather to ponder Kierkegaard and epistemology whilst chomping on pipe stems. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To be able to look around a room full of 2,100 people who are not only intrigued by the idea of missional communities but intrigued enough to spend time, money and effort to come hear more about is tremendous. ❋ Unknown (2010)

King, I believe, would call the missional church movement to adopt a new scoreboard for measuring success. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the arguments or protests I get quite often from the "missional" fellows is that I am opposing those who are "doing great good for the Lost and Winning Souls." ❋ Mike Ratliff (2010)

When the emergents or "missional" folks insist that they are "doing great good for the Lost and Winning Souls," but they are doing so via becoming just like the world while removing all of the offensiveness from their version of the Gospel, then we must obey these warnings and point out to the Church that even if there are some being persuaded via their πιθανολογια and χρηστολογιας και ευλογιας, we are not the ακακων. ❋ Mike Ratliff (2010)

I also documented for you that such as these have now created a such a "missional" shift in the Christian faith so broad that even a pantheistic mystic like Deepak Chopra can sign onto this supposedly resurrected new global Christianity. ❋ Ken Silva Pastor-teacher (2010)

Despite what the emergent or "missional" focused folks attempt to say, the biblical definition of the Gospel is not "sufficiently broad" to accommodate their non-biblical focus along with our specifically biblical focus according to what they call a "balance point." ❋ Unknown (2010)

I contrasted what this doctrine says with the lack of doctrinal focus in the seeker-sensitive, "missional" efforts. ❋ Unknown (2010)