Missional ChurchOne of the most common questions when it comes to the idea of missional church is, “What the heck does a missional church look like?” Well here’s another great quote from the book, Missional Church, in which the authors provide a bunch of examples of ways a community of Christians could live out a missional form of church.

Christians may form themselves as an intentional community living in the same neighborhood, making lifestyle decisions that enable them to organize their daily lives and family interactions as a primary form of witness. But they may worship in their homes rather than own a church building. Christians may form themselves as a non-geographical community centered on a particular form of witness. Their calling may be to demonstrate the gospel in ministry to the homeless, to young people, to the elderly, to prisoners, to the terminally ill, or to an immigrant population. Such a vocation might mean that their congregation meets in a borrowed facility, a rented hall, or a storefront that welcomes their particular constituency. Christians may join together to share church buildings erected for a time when the church was dominant in our society. Their particular vocation may be to conduct public worship in innovative ways that build communication bridges to their society and present the gospel to unevangelized people in ways they can understand. To do this they may find themselves using a local theater on Sunday mornings or taking over an abandoned inner-city church and using its space for untraditional forms of worship and ministry. A particular group of Christians may respond to the loneliness and isolation of the modern city and form themselves as a vowed intentional community, sharing several apartments in order to carry out a ministry of hospitality and friendship in the midst of the highly secularized world of professionals. Other Christians may form themselves around the charism of hospitality, or ministry with the handicapped, or the contemplative life.