Missional Community

Lately I have been surfing the web researching the idea of missional community for our talk times at House of ROC and I came across a really good article that I thought I would share here. It is a good summary of what we are talking about in light of House of ROC's future. Here is some of what it says:

"With this view, “mission” shifts from naming a function of the church to describing its essential nature.[1] In a missional church, the church IS mission rather than does mission as a program or activity of the larger life of the church. The church’s nature is to show the world what it looks like when a community of people live under the reign of God in every aspect of daily life."

And, in light of the talk last Saturday about needing a new framing story:

"Rather than embodying, demonstrating and announcing a new way of being human under God’s reign, the modern church, in general, has been domesticated by American culture. The task of the missional community is to explore and rediscover God’s countercultural call to represent the reign of God in our emerging post-modern society."

Read the entire article here.

It seems to me that much of what is discussed in the article, House of ROC endorses either in word and deed, or at least in word. What do you think? What are the things discussed here that excite you, and what do you struggle with?