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