1. The Missional Church Framework
Session 1
The Missional Church Framework

2. My Story

3. A.R.I.S. Study
American Religious Identification Survey

4. The Missional Church
“Ultimately, each church will be evaluated by only one thing—its disciples. Your church is only as good as her disciples. It does not matter how good your praise, preaching, programs or property are; if your disciples are passive, needy, consumeristic, and not moving in the direction of radical obedience, your church is not good.”
– Neil Cole (Author, Church Planter)

5. Attractional vs Missional
EXERCISE
Break up into groups of 4
2 people argue for attractional approach, the other 2 for the missional approach
2 minutes to prepare, 2 minutes to share, 2 minutes to discuss

6. The Missional Church in Perspective
1998 Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America (editor Darrell Guder, professor, Princeton Theological Seminary)
The Missional Church in Perspective (author Craig Van Gelder, professor, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN)

7. Church (Ecclesiology)
Mission (Missiology)

8. Christendom 16th Century
Germany established the Lutheran Church
England the Anglicans
Netherlands & Scotland the Reformed Church
Mennonites, Quakers, Anabaptist and Independent Baptist were persecuted sects

9. Modern Missions 18th Century
1792 William Carey’s Proposal to reach the “heathen” in other countries

10. Modern Missions 19th Century
Inter-denominational Mission Societies
Denominational Missional Societies
Para-church Organizations
Church (Ecclesiology)
Mission (Missiology)

11. Modern Missions 20th Century
Edinburgh (1910)
Jerusalem Conference (1928)
Madras Conference (1938)
Whitby, Canada (1947)

12. Modern Missions – Mid 20th Century
Church (Ecclesiology) Mission (Missiology)
Karl Barth (Church Dogmatics)
Missio Dei (Mission of God)
God is missionary in his nature
SHIFT 1: Church-centric to Theo-centric
“It is not the church that has a mission of salvation to fulfill in the world; it is the mission of the Son and the Spirit through the Father that includes the church” - Jürgen Moltmann

13. Modern Missions – Mid 20th Century
Quest for historical Jesus
The Third Quest
Central Message of Jesus – The Kingdom of God
SHIFT 2: From a reductionistic view of individualized salvation to a holistic view of understanding of the Good News (recovering all that was lost at the fall)
Church (Ecclesiology) Mission (Missiology)

14. Modern Missions Lesslie Newbigin (Missionary, Bishop)
David Bosch (Missiologist, Author) Transforming Mission
Church “Sent People”
SHIFT 3: The Church is Missionary by Nature
“Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work”
Missional Hermeneutics
SHIFT 4: From Theology of Mission to Missional Theology

15. Missional Theology
“Missional theology is a kind of practical theology that explores every aspect of the theological curriculum and praxis of the church the implications of the missionary nature of God with the purpose of forming congregations to better articulate the gospel and to live faithfully their vocation to participate in the ongoing redemptive mission of God in a particular context” – Benjamin T. Conner (professor, Memphis Theological Seminary Center for Youth Ministry Training

16. Key Theological Developments
Missio Dei
Robust Gospel
Sent People
Missional Hermeneutic
Polycentric Missional Leadership

17. Key Terms to Understand
Attractional – Come and see
Incarnatoinal – Go and be with, do with, share with
Extractional – So meeting focus, it extracts people out of their missional contribution in their everyday context

18. Discipleship in Every Social Space
Intimate (2-3) - People know the naked truth about each other
Personal (12) - Jesus and the 12
Social (20-50) - Extended family, people’s “oikos”
Public - Larger spaces

19. Stages of Discipleship
Developmental Phase
Description
Resister
Adversarial toward the church or faith
Skeptic
Skeptical of church or Christian faith
Seeker
Open to God, willing to engage in spiritual conversation
Hearer
Self identify as Christian (Conversion)
Kneeler
Understanding new identity and the basics
Faithful
Active priests using gifts and talents to bless others
Servant
Core missional community, leaders