This is a summary of some of the posts I’ve written over the past couple of years defining missional. Most notable among these are two series that I did on the subject. The first was my exploration of the topic, and the second was a summary of the posts contributed in a synchroblog on the question. I’ve marked a couple of the notable posts with an asterisk.
Defining Missional Series (August-September 2007)
• The Dangers of Missionalism & The Dangers of Language
• Aloha, Missional
• *Missional Essentials: A Short List
• *Understanding Missional: Personalizing the Central Tenets
• Missional Definitions: A Brief Survey
• Missional Interlude, with Post-Christendom Considerations
• Missio(nal) Dei?
• Missional Reading, Pre-Missional
• Coming Up… (Summary; overuse of “missional”)
• The Keys to the Missional Kingdom (Kingdom of God)
• The Mission of Missional
• Missional Theory: Cultural Relativity vs. Ethical Relativity (Contextualization)
• Interpreting Christ (incarnation)
• Missional as the Defragmentation of Missions
Later Posts Defining Missional
• Missional Is & Missional Ain’t (April 2008)
• Missional Soup (June 2008 SyncroBlog Contribution)
July 2008 — SynchroBlog Summary Series
• 50 Ways to Define ‘Missional’ – I
• 50 Ways to Define ‘Missional’ – II
• 50 Ways to Define ‘Missional’ – III
• 50 Ways to Define ‘Missional’ – IV
• 50 Ways to Define ‘Missional’ – V
• 50 Ways to Define ‘Missional’ – VI
• 50 Ways to Define ‘Missional’ – VII
• 50 Ways to Define ‘Missional’ – VIII
• *50 Ways to Define ‘Missional’ – IX
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February 6th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Good timing. I just left a comment on Ed Stetzer’s recent missional post, and quoted you.
February 7th, 2010 at 2:17 am
John, thanks for quoting me on Ed’s post. I’m just catching up with that one, but I think the discussion illustrates a divide that bears a little more exploration… not everyone using the term “missional” means quite the same thing by it, and it’d be good to answer whether this aspect is specifically in or out or simply not a part of the term one way or the other. Still some room for discussion here, with hopes of not leaving it as discussion only of course.