The Missional Church in Perspective: Mapping and Extending ... · into the world •God’s mission...
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Book Overview• Part I: History and development of
missional conversation– Concepts influencing missional conversation– Revisiting seminal work Missional Church– Mapping missional conversation
• Part II: Perspectives that extend the missional conversation– Expanding and enriching theological frameworks– Missional engagement with culture in a globalized
world– Missional practices of church life and leadership
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“Missional”?!?
“The word ‘missional’ seems to have traveled the remarkable path of going from obscurity to banality in only one decade.”
—Alan Roxburgh
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Four Common Themes in the Literature
• God is a missionary God who sends the church into the world
• God’s mission in the world is related to the reign (kingdom) of God
• The missional church is an incarnational (vs. attractional) ministry
• The internal life of the missional church focuses on every believer living as a disciple engaging in mission
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Mapping the Conversation
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Concepts Influencing the Conversation
• Church and missions/mission
• Trinitarian missiology—God is a sending God
• Reign (Kingdom) of God
• Missio Dei (Mission of God)
• Church’s missionary nature
• Missional hermeneutic
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Revisiting Missional Church
• Underdeveloped concepts, unresolved theological issues
– Trinitarian missiology (western logic)
– Relationship of missio Dei and Reign of God
– Church and culture/world
• Anabaptist and Reformed strains
– Worship, sacraments, ordination
– Historical ecclesiologies
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Missio Dei and Reign of God
• Specialized views
– Church embodies reign of God
– Church witnesses to reign of God
• Generalized secular views
– God’s mission unfolds through secular history
– God’s mission unfolds in the midst of secular history
• Integrated view
– Church participates in God’s continuing creation and redemptive mission
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Mapping the Literature• Discovering
– Missions/Great Commission
• Utilizing– Kingdom as extension of church; participating in God’s
mission; church as contrast community
• Engaging – Congregational practices; transforming systems
• Extending– Addressing key issues; missional hermeneutic; deepen
understanding
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Expanding and Enriching Theological Frameworks
• Social and sending Trinity
– Mission in image of Trinity as participation in God’s communal, creative, reconciling movement in world
– Reciprocity, mutuality
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Expanding and Enriching Theological Frameworks, cont.
• From imitation to participation
• Creation, incarnation, passion (cruciform mission)
• Spirit
• Relational anthropology
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Missional Engagement with Culture in Globalized World
• 21st century cultural complexity
– Hybridity
– Globalization
– ‘Neighborhoods’ in a networked world
– Reversals of global mission
• Creation and culture
• Hospitality of world
• Missional church in public
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Missional Practices of Church Life and Leadership
• Missional imagination
• Missional discipleship practices
• Participatory missional leadership
• Rethinking church organization
• Missional church planting
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