Moving the church outside the walls doesn’t necessarily make it missional. If the purpose of our activities is ultimately to bring more people into our church, That is not missional.
Being a missional church is about moving outside the walls, not to grow our church, but to extend God’s love to those around us.
A missional church can’t be concerned about getting a return on their investment
A missional church must me a church where people see them selves as participants in the mission of God, not just passive recipients of his Grace.
As the body of Christ we are God’s physical representation here on earth. Being missional is about being a redemptive force in our community. Its about God’s will being done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
A missional church is more concerned about how it can enable and encourage its members to serve the community more than it is concerned about offering “services” to its members.
A missional church must be less concerned with making converts than it is with making disciples.
The old way of doing church was attractional. (How can we bring them in?) A missional church is incarnational. (How can we embody Christ in the community?)
Being missional must come from Love. For God so loved the world that he sent his one and only Son.
A truly missional church must be a loving church. People are smart if they sense that we are doing the things we are doing with the motive of getting them to come to our church they will know, and it will turn them off.
Being a missional church is about loving people like this.
Just Another Broken Pilgrim 