Friend of Missional - What is a Missional Church?

Friend of Missional - What is a Missional Church?: "Description of a Missional Church

* A missional church is a collection of missional believers acting in concert together in fulfillment of the missio dei.1
* A missional church is one where people are exploring and rediscovering what it means to be Jesus' sent people as their identity and vocation.
* A missional church is faith communities willing and ready to be Christ's people in their own situation and place.
* A missional church knows that they must be a cross-cultural missionary (contextual) people and adopt a missionary stance in relation to their community.
* A missional church will be engaged with the culture (in the world) without being absorbed by the culture (not of the world). They will become intentionally indigenous.
* A missional church understands that God is already present in the culture where it finds itself. Therefore, a missional church doesn't view its purpose as bringing God into the culture or taking individuals out of the culture to a sacred space.
* A missional church is about more than just being contextual, it is also about the nature of the church and how it relates to God.
* A missional church is about being -- being conformed to the image of God.
* A missional church will seek to plant all types of missional communities.
* A missional church is"