www.missional.org
The vision of Missional Church Center is to foster movements of missional churches that will reproduce congregations committed to equipping and empowering authentic disciples of Christ, whose lives will fill the earth with His Glory.
“Missional” is an adjective used to describe a unique posture from which the Body of Christ ministers in cultures of discontinuous change. A missional church is “a reproducing community of authentic disciples being equipped as missionaries sent by God to live and proclaim His Kingdom in their world.” Ministry in post-Christian culture requires churches to equip members to live as missionaries.
www.membermission.org
Move congregations from maintenance to mission with fifteen stories of ordinary Christians doing extraordinary things at home, at work, in their local community, the wider world, their leisure, their spiritual health, as well as their part in their church's life and its outreach; and ways for congregations to organize around supporting the daily living of their members as their primary purpose.
www.friendofmissional.org
In an article titled, "The 'Missional Church': A Model for Canadian Churches?" David Horrox writes, "The church should stop mimicking the surrounding culture and become an alternative community, with a different set of beliefs, values and behaviors. Ministers would no longer engage in marketing; churches would no longer place primary emphasis on programs to serve members. The traditional ways of evaluating 'successful churches' – bigger buildings, more people, bigger budgets, larger ministerial staff, new and more programs to serve members – would be rejected. New yardsticks would be the norm: To what extent is our church a 'sent' community in which each believer is reaching out to his community? To what extent is our church impacting the community with a Christian message that challenges the values of our secular society?"
http://www.peoplegroups.info/
Research peope groups in your area or across the globe and discover resources for reaching them with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Center for Missional Research Statistics and Studies on Church Culture Community
The Center for Missional Research exists to help Christian leaders make strategic missional decisions by researching North American cultures, analyzing ministry effectiveness of churches, understanding communities where churches minister, and building connections among churches.
http://www.mapchurch.com/
Benefit #1 Survey a representative sampling of your members and find out what they are thinking! The results are aggregated and anonymity is protected—member names and individual answers are not revealed with the results. Your survey respondents are free to share their honest perspectives safely, and yet in a way that will help their pastor and church leadership to have a better picture of the church’s missional mindset.
Benefit #2 Cause your members to consider the importance of your church being missional, and prompt them to re-evaluate their own personal commitment to evangelism, outreach, church planting and missions. Any opportunity to get your members thinking about their involvement in these ministries can lead to positive Kingdom impact!
Benefit #3 This tool will evaluate the aggregate results and suggest ways to move your church along the missional continuum from less effective to more effective. Church leadership will be presented with options, and if you choose, you may select the solutions that best fit your church’s style and needs.
