Missional church

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A missional church is a church that, at its core, fully abandons itself to the mission of God.

Among other things, a missional church:

is one where people are exploring and rediscovering what it means to be Jesus' sent people as their identity and vocation.
will be made up of individuals willing and ready to be Christ's people in their own situation and place.
knows that they must be a cross-cultural missionary (contextual) people in their own community.
will be engaged with the culture (in the world) without being absorbed by the culture (not of the world). They will become intentionally indigenous.

[edit] References

George R. Hunsberger (Editor), Craig Van Gelder (Editor), The Church Between Gospel and Culture: The Emerging Mission in North America, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (March 1996).
Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church, Hendrickson Publishers (November 2003).
Darrell Guder (Editor), Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (February 1998).
Ed Stetzer and David Putman, Breaking the Missional Code, B&H Publishing Group (May 2006).