Missional SynchroBlog

What is Missional?

I think it is time to make a bigger effort to reclaim the term, a term which describe what happens when you and I replace the “come to us” invitations with a “go to them” life. A life where “the way of Jesus” informs and radically transforms our existence to one wholly focused on sacrificially living for him and others and where we adopt a missionary stance in relation to our culture. It speaks of the very nature of the Jesus follower.

To help reclaim it, I propose a synchronized blog for Monday, June 23rd on the topic, “What is Missional?”

There are any number of ways one could blog on this topic. You could illustrate what the term means, describe what it is not and how it is wrongly used, define the term, explore its misuses, explore its theological foundations, or you name it.

from the Blind Beggar via the Weary Pilgrim, who has a list of bloggers participating.

ps - Malcolm's post on the topic (which he refers to in the comments) can be found here.

Comments

[Malcolm+]

Are you back from your trip?

Anyway, if you check out simplemassingpriest, you'll see an essay on this very topic using the fate of Canadian breweries as an analogy.

[joseph]

I am now fully back and present in Edmonton, although I can't seem to find a cafe that serves coffee with quite the same zest as Turk Khavesi.

[Leslie]

Welcome back, Joe!

P.S. Christendom is a word that comes up a lot in Anglican circles. If I were an Anglican, how would I define it?

[joseph]

Leslie - see the above post(s) for a little bit of good old fashioned Christendom.