Lives of others Quote by Lance Ford

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

— Alan Hirsch

“To reach this growing post-Christendom society in the West will obviously take more than what we ordinarily call an evangelistic church; it will take…

— Timothy Keller

“Mission and missions must be the consuming passion of the whole church of God and not the exclusive domain of an elite missionary regiment.…

— John Mark Terry

“So a working definition of missional church is a community of God's people that defines itself, and organizes its life around, its real purpose…

— Alan Hirsch

“a missional church is simply any church that organizes itself around the mission of God in this world.”

— Michael Frost

We as a church don't have a mission. The mission has a Church.

— Reggie McNeal

“A Missional Community is a group of approximately 20 to 40 people who are seeking to reach a particular neighborhood or network of relationships…

— Mike Breen

The mission of the church is missions.

— Oswald J. Smith

“Mission is not a trip or a youth activity, a silent cousin to evangelism, or an optional model of youth ministry. Mission is the…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“The cultural distance between our churches and communities continues to widen, making it harder and harder to communicate the gospel. Being missional means moving…

— Ed Stetzer

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

— Alan Hirsch

Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

— David Bosch