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So You want to Know what ‘Missional’ is…

By Stephen 4 Comments
Categories: Church and Missional

Well JR Woodward has prepared an amazingly comprehensive list of resources that cover the concept of ‘missional’ from top to bottom from a great diverse group of commentators unified by their desire to ask hard missiological questions about what the church should be doing in the world today.

4 Responses to “So You want to Know what ‘Missional’ is…”

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  1. 1 JR Woodward
    November 6, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    Thanks for the HT. Peace.

  2. 2 Thomas
    November 9, 2008 at 7:18 pm

    On the one hand, “missional” is a more “organic” term than missions. Missional refers to “the church’s very nature” (Roxburgh and Romanuk). Having said this, in my experience, the term “missional” tends to be closely tied to a postliberal hermeneutic, or postmillenial eschatology (however one would prefer to put it), e.g. Guder, Hunsberger, Roxburgh, and so on. In a sense, therefore, it is a “branded term”, not a term which one can freely use as a universal one.

  3. 3 Stephen
    November 10, 2008 at 8:45 am

    I guess the way in which the term would be understood depends partly upon how any specific practitioner understands God’s mission in this world. Hence those with a more post-millenial understanding of God’s mission will end up with a more post-millenial brand of missional.


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