Bill Easum recently had an excellent blog posting with the following:

what are the implications of being missional?

1. Instead of nominating people to serve in some official capacity within the church people are commissioned to live out Christ at home, work, and play based on their giftedness.
2. The surrounding secular community is the focus of ministry rather than the programs within the church.
3. Instead of a “build it and they will come” attitude the church understands it is a “we must disciple people where they are.”
4. Mission and evangelism committees don’t exist because everything and everyone in the church is involved in missionary and evangelistic activity.
5. Leadership is focused on making disciples instead of doing programs.
6. The prime directive of the church is to transform society not to insure that the institutional church is fed.
7. God is understood to be a missionary God who invites all people into His fellowship and sends out that fellowship to engage the world.
8. Missional churches are always asking “What is God up to in our city, and how can we be a part of it?
9. What structure a church has follows God’s mission rather than some predetermined form.
10. Leadership is more collaborative than authoritative (does not mean the leader doesn’t lead).
11. Leaders function more as spiritual midwives, helping others birth their God-given gift, than as authoritative figures (let your imagination run wild on this one.

Your thoughts?