Missional Communities

Missional Communities are communities of Christians who study the Bible together, encourage each other to live it out, care for one another etc. but who also have a clearly identified mission where they are involved in the wider community, seeking to serve alongside and build relationships with people who are not yet Christians.They look for appropriate opportunities to share the good news of Jesus and/or invite people to experience the life of the missional community where they can see Christians being Christians.

Younger Christians are intentionally discipled by being part of the life of the community.

Verge Network's 7 Questions Series

• What is A Missional Community? - Felicity Dale (video)

• Viral Missional Communities - Ed Stetzer (video)

• FAQs About Missional Communities - Soma

• 5 Essential Ingredients Of A Missional Community - Mike Breen (3DM)

• Mike Breen's Missional Community series of blog posts - Mike Breen

• A Silver Bullet In A Microwave Culture - Mike Breen (Church Plants)

• Missional Communities - Peter Cheyne (PowerPoint)

• The Idea Of A Mission Community - Rt Rev Stephen C. Scarlett

• Are Missional Communities Just A Passing Fad? - Jeff Vanderstelt (Saturate The World)

• Arguably, the strategy of the Celtic missionary movement of the 5th-9th centuries, involving people such as Patrick, Columba, Columbanus, Aidan and so on, was "missional communities". Their monasteries were not about seclusion from the world but bases for mission into the world.

• Missional Community Stories: The Marshalls - (video)

• Mike Breen: What is A Missional Community? - (video)

• Soma's Missional Communities web page

• Missional Community FAQs (Soma)

Soma School training

• 3DM on Missional Communities

• Verge’s collection of videos etc on missional communities

• Wikipedia article

• What’s The Difference – How are missional communities different from other type of group? – Jeff Vanderstelt and Caesar Kalinowski

• Are Gospel Communities On Mission Essential To Making Fully Formed Disciples? – Seth McBee

• Ten Reasons Missional Communities Fail – Doug Paul

Todd Engstrom (The Austin Stone) blog series, “Defining Missional Communities”

• Why Missional Communities?

• What Is A Missional Community?

• MC Practice 2: Third Place

• MC Practice 3: Family Meeting

• See also

• The World’s Simplest Tool For Making Disciples (Life Transformation groups)

• 10 Reasons Why Missional Communities Fail - Doug Paul (Outreach Magazine)