Just What is Missional?

Below is and excerpt from a blog named The Missional Challenge and it gives a fairly straight forward explanation what what it means to be missional.

"Here is a simple explanation of the word missional—it describes being a missionary everywhere you are! It is about doing missions—aligning your life with the redemptive mission of Jesus in the world. It includes adopting the posture of a missionary in order to engage those in the culture around you with the gospel message. It is based on the recognition that every believer has been sent by Jesus as Christian missionaries with the good news of salvation together in community with other believers to their specific geographic and cultural context. Just as God sent Jesus, Jesus sends all believers (John 20:21)."

If you have some extra time, you can read the rest of his post here. The author of this blog, Dave Devries wrote his doctoral dissertation on this very subject and has uncovered a lot of stuff and has given careful thought to it.