The Missional Network

The Missional Church is defined as a biblically faithful and culturally appropriate, reproducing community of disciples sent on mission by God to advance his Kingdom among all peoples.  We affirm every Missional Church regardless of the ministry style who supports the BFM and ecclesiastical guidelines. Our goal is to assist missional leaders and churches through the Missional Network in identifying effective methodology for biblically faithful churches to reach people in culture.

What is Missional? 

Missional is the adjective form of the word missionary and has been an approach utilized for decades. Missionaries learned long ago that to reach a people group for Christ, they would need to understand the community and it's culture. By understanding the natives' beliefs, traditions, and values, they could eat, drink and talk like them. Then they were better equiped to share the love of Christ within the context of the natives’ culture. A missional leader thinks like a Missionary—understanding the culture, leading biblically faithful and culturally relevant churches, and thinking in missionary ways about their contexts.  They share the conviction that the local expression of the Christian faith must be culturally relevant to the people that it is called to reach. 

What is the Missional Network?

The Missional Network is an online and relational community of ministry leaders connecting and sharing ideas, challenges, resources, and best practices to improve effectiveness in sharing Christ, sending missionaries and starting churches.

Missional Network Components

• Missional Network Web Site: An online environment for Missional leaders to connect for idea sharing, file sharing, relating, and coaching to extend their reach to evangelize, plant churches, and send missionaries more effectively through innovation.
  

• Missional Network Gatherings: Face-to-face environments for Missional leaders to connect through gatherings, both regionally and nationally. The gatherings will inspire participants to extend their reach to evangelize and plant churches more effectively through innovation. Attendees will interact with other network members, hear about network opportunities, and learn from nationally recognized thinkers.
  

Blogging on the Missional Network

We would like to invite you to join the conversation and participate in making the network an active community of leaders helping each other. If you’d like to blog on the Missional Network site, here’s six simple guidelines:

 
1. Respect your audience. Don't use ethnic slurs, obscenity, or personal insults.

2. Show proper consideration for others' privacy and for topics that may be considered ojectionable or inflammatory. Don’t use this site for gossip.

3. Be the first to correct your own mistakes, and don't alter previous posts without indicating that you have done so.

4. Do add value. Provide worthwhile information and perspective on how other leaders can be more effective in planting churches and evangelizing through innovation, best practices, and wise choices.

5. Share what your church is doing right, lessons learned, challenges, and successes.

6. Share your insights on culture, church, and trends that will engage other leaders and benefit their ministries.

If you are interested in blogging on the Missional Network, please reply to this blog with your request.