Leading a Missional Community
MISSIONAL COMMUNITIES DEFINED
A Missional Community (MC) is a committed core of believers who live out the mission of God together in a specific area or to a particular people group by demonstrating the gospel in tangible forms and declaring the gospel to others – both those who believe it and those who are being exposed to it.
To Clarify…A Missional Community is not PRIMARILY:
- A Small Group
- A Bible Study
- A Support Group
- A Social Activist Group
- A Weekly Meeting
Download: Leading a Missional Community (pdf)
Document Includes:
How to establish a Missional Communities Direction including the 'mission' of the community, how the community should be led, MC responsibilities, activities and more. Created from a gospel-centered, triperspectival angle.
Credits: Soma Communities, edited for Kaleo by David Fairchild.
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Drew Goodmanson
CEO of Monk Development creators of Ekklesia 360. Co-Founder of Kaleo Church where I served as Pastor for 8+ years and helped coach several church plants in San Diego. Co-Founder of the GCM Collective, President of the Board at the Center for Church Communication, Board Member of the Entrepreneurship Organization, Internet/Technology Advisory Chair at the Christian Leadership Alliance. Connect
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Drew – we at the Austin Stone (www.austinstone.org) are developing VERY similar visions, strategies, tools and resources. I would love to talk/email more and share ideas and tools beyond the blog.
Right now I’m blogging on what it means to build a movement of missional communities. I’d love your input as well.
Drew,
are the different categories referred to in the document – servants, family, missionaries, etc. discussed elsewhere? I didn’t really see an explanation there.
Stew, cool I’ll take a look. btw- we are having a conference on this stuff later this month.
Nick, this comes from Soma, who have created their Identity & Rhythms.
Thanks drew.
Awesome! Just what I was looking for!
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