Missional Synchro-blog...

From Rick Meigs...

I have a continuing concern that the term missional has become over used and wrongly used.

Audio Ur posted a podcast with Alan Hirsch yesterday and I got around to listen to it this morning. Alan takes up this very concern and says things like: It is a critical term. We must reclaim the term. The concept behind missional is really big and it would be terrible to lose it.

I think it is time to make a bigger effort to reclaim the term, a term which describe what happens when you and I replace the “come to us” invitations with a “go to them” life. A life where “the way of Jesus” informs and radically transforms our existence to one wholly focused on sacrificially living for him and others and where we adopt a missionary stance in relation to our culture. It speaks of the very nature of the Jesus follower.

To help reclaim it, I propose a synchronized blog for Monday, June 23rd on the topic, “What is Missional?”

There are any number of ways one could blog on this topic. You could illustrate what the term means, describe what it is not and how it is wrongly used, define the term, explore its misuses, explore its theological foundations, or you name it.

There have been 18 32 40 47 49 50 bloggers who have responded to my Call for Missional SynchroBlog for Monday, June 23rd on the topic, “What is Missional?”

Listed below are those who will be participating.

Alan Hirsch
Alan Knox
Andrew Jones
Barb Peters
Bill Kinnon
Brad Brisco
Brad Grinnen
Brad Sargent
Brother Maynard
Bryan Riley
Chad Brooks
Chris Wignall
Cobus Van Wyngaard
Dave DeVries
David Best
David Fitch
David Wierzbicki
DoSi
Doug Jones
Duncan McFadzean
Erika Haub
Grace
Jamie Arpin-Ricci
Jeff McQuilkin
John Smulo
Jonathan Brink
JR Rozko
Kathy Escobar
Len Hjalmarson
Makeesha Fisher
Malcolm Lanham
Mark Berry
Mark Petersen
Mark Priddy
Michael Crane
Michael Stewart
Nick Loyd
Patrick Oden
Peggy Brown
Phil Wyman
Richard Pool
Rick Meigs
Rob Robinson
Ron Cole
Scott Marshall
Sonja Andrews
Stephen Shields
Steve Hayes
Tim Thompson
Thom Turner

Comments

[jim]

Ron, if you haven't already visited the link, check out: http://undertheoverpasses.blogspot.com

The fellow is a 35-yr old Episcopalean minister who runs an outreach to the homeless and derelicts of the street. I'll be looking forward to your upcoming event discussing the topic, but will only add my own two cents here. For me, being "missional" involves no more than being true to God's tug on your heart. It may well involve going to some faroff land with the Gospel, but it also can be no more than "who is my neighbor?". I'll even add that "missional" is not the only word we, as the Body of Christ, have put into our individual definintional boxes and framed on the sanctuary wall.....

Woah, can I be a quiet observer?

Paige

[ron]

Hey Jim, Thanks for the link. I like that thought of framing it, and nailing it to the sanctuary wall. I believe once we've done that, we lost what missional is...it's a verb, a movement, an outward motion. Anyways, stay tuned, hopefully I can add something to the conversation. Peace...Ron+

Paige, I look at some of the names on that list...possibly, I should be a silent observer. Peace...Ron+

[Malcolm+]

I will be posting on this topic at simplemassingpriest.blogspot.com

[ron]

Thanks Malcolm, I'll add your name to the list.