Missional Quotes

#1. The missional church will take context seriously, but will also work on recovering the biblical narrative with its richness and potency for today's world. When story and context are equally embraced, we are beginning to think and act missionally.

Michael Frost

#2. Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.

Gary Rohrmayer

#3. In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

Alan Hirsch

#4. Missional leaders know that their church will only grow as large as its capacity to provide ongoing care through a network of small groups and ministry teams.

Gary Rohrmayer

#5. The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

Alan Hirsch

#6. In other words, how "missional" you are is largely determined by the extent to which your people model the life, activities, and words of Jesus.

Hugh Halter

#7. The problem is that we don't have a "missional" problem or a leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem.

Mike Breen

#8. The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix

Michael Frost

#9. Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.

Ed Stetzer

#10. Remember all missional advancement always engages missional resistance.

Gary Rohrmayer

#11. Without the theological aspect, the emphasis on adoption too easily is seen as mere charity. Without the missional aspect, the doctrine of adoption too easily is seen as mere metaphor.

Russell D. Moore

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

Alan Hirsch

#13. A missional theology ... appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

Alan Hirsch

#14. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.

Gary Rohrmayer

#15. Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

Alan Hirsch

#16. Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.

Gary Rohrmayer

#17. In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

Alan Hirsch

#18. The goal is not to run a program called "Missional Community." The goal is to learn how to function as an extended family on mission.

Mike Breen

#19. Another distinction between missional and maintenance mindsets is that a maintenance mindset tells the Lord what to do; a missional mindset does what the Lord says. Right

Jeffrey A. Johnson

#20. The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

Alan Hirsch

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

Michael Frost

#22. Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.'

Leonard Sweet

#23. important to note that the missional church combines the concern for community development normally characterized by the liberal churches and the desire for personal and community transformation normally characterized by the evangelical movement.

Michael Frost

#24. The mission that Jesus invites us to participate in is primarily a relational one in nature. Our ability to sustain our relationship in a meaningful way will have a direct impact on our missional fruitfulness.

Gary Rohrmayer

#25. Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who know nothing about your church or are disconnected from your people.

Gary Rohrmayer

#26. As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back.

Gary Rohrmayer

#27. We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price.

Stanley Hauerwas

#28. Focus on relationships in your communities and God will come up spiritual conversations will emerge and real needs will come to light.

Matt Smay

#29. If you want to help people we have to dive into people wade into the sea of humanity.

Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

#30. God makes his gospel attractive through his people.

Gary Rohrmayer

#31. If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

Gary Rohrmayer