Missional: a point-blank term that emphasizes the approach rather than the population. When it comes to church planting, missional implies taking the methods of a missionary—being indigenous to the culture, seeking to understand and learn, adapting to the mission field—but planting the biblical form of a church.
In Planting Missional Churches (now updated and expanded from its first edition, entitled Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age), Stetzer offers the watershed instruction book for planting biblically faithful and culturally relevant churches.
The how-to and why issues of church planting are here, providing practical guidance through all the phases of a church plant while also taking a mission-minded look at existing and emerging cultures.
