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What is a Missional Community? – Other Definitions

When others interact with an idea, it provides clarity on your own thinking.  Below are some ways that other movements around the country would define missional communities.  I have learned from each one of them:

All of these have distinct language, but they all share a common conviction that the community is primarily oriented around mission, not community.

What would you add or change about these definitions?

I’ll unpack how The Austin Stone defines it in the next few posts.

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What is a Missional Community?

In a previous series, I worked through the primary reasons we pursue missional communities at The Austin Stone.

Whether you’re new to the idea of missional communities, or have been implementing them for a long time, I’d love to start some dialogue around what they actually are.  Is a missional community something new, or just a repackaging of an old idea? 

In this series of posts, I will take a look at this question:

“What is a Missional Community?”

The series will be unpacked in the parts below:

  1. Part 1 – Other’s Definitions of Missional Community
  2. Part 2 – A Vision for Missional Community
  3. Part 3 – A Definition of Missional Community
  4. Part 4 – On Mission with God
  5. Part 5 – A Pocket of People
  6. Part 6 – More Than a Bible Study

What would you like to see more of, or have me expand on?

Let me know in the comments!