The Road to Missional: Journey to the Center of the Church
Overview
Discover a whole new way of following Jesus. It has recently become acceptable, and even fashionable, to refer to one’s church as “missional.” But many churches misunderstand the concept, thinking of “going missional” as simply being a necessary add-on to church-as-usual. This domestication of what is actually a very bold paradigm shift makes missional nothing more than one more trick to see church growth.
With a light hand and a pastoral spirit, Michael Frost points out how most of us are not quite there yet. He reestablishes the ground rules, redefines the terms accurately, and insists that the true prophetic essence of “being missional” comes through undiluted. This clear corrective will take ministry leaders from “not missional yet” to well on their way.
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- Analyzes what the term missional means
- Practically helps everyone understand their place in God’s mission
- Provides clarity to the growing missional movement
- The Missio Dei: Seeing Mission as Bigger Than Evangelism
- Slow Evangelism: Moving Beyond the Four Spiritual Laws
- A Market-Shaped Church: How Membership Has Trumped Mission
- Triumphant Humiliation: The Cross as a Missional Paradigm for Holiness
- Breathing Shalom: Bringing Reconciliation, Justice, and Beauty to a Broken World
- Moving into the Neighborhood: Living Out Incarnational Mission
Top Highlights
“The missional among us are sent ones, profoundly conscious of the commission they have embraced and the community to whom they’ve been sent.” (Page 24)
“‘The Gospel is the good news that God himself has come to rescue and renew all of creation through the work of Jesus Christ on our behalf.’” (Page 33)
“It seems to me, then, that a core question for all missional Christians is to ask, what does the reign of God through Christ look like in my neighborhood? If the kingdom of God has come and is overlapping with the broken world in which I live, how can I alert people to it? What does it look like? Where do I see the evidence of it? In fact, it occurs to me that this is a far more legitimate and creative question to ask than the usual questions about how we can attract people to our church programs.” (Page 28)
“Although directly translated into English as ‘peace,’ shalom doesn’t simply refer to an absence of conflict or inner personal calm. It refers to that dream of rightness, the regeneration of all things of which Jesus spoke.” (Page 34)
“And when church leaders read evangelism as a chiefly come-to-us activity, they end up thinking that being missional is just the latest way of being überattractional.” (Page 24)
In The Road to Missional Michael Frost provides a prophetic call to examine all we do in light of the mission of God. I’m thankful to have his provocative voice in the missional conversation. Michael is a friend to the church and a man who deeply loves the mission of God.
—Ed Stetzer, president, LifeWay Research
Every week or two a new missional book arrives on my desk. By and large they are getting better and better, and this one is the best one yet. It’s all here—divine origins, shifting evangelism, cross, resurrection, and holistic redemption—in accessible form. This is the first book to give someone who says ‘What is missional?’
—Scot McKnight, Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies, North Park University
As brilliant as Mike speaks on the Missio Dei, The Road to Missional practically helps everyone understand their place in God’s mission, the pace to which God will ask them to move, and possibilities of a life oriented away from self. This book is a must for church leaders, but is dense with beautiful stories that will give every unpaid saint reasons to live a vigorous life after the king. I hope any Christian would read this, but it’s geared for the stout-hearted!
—Hugh Halter, church planter, pastor, consultant, and missionary
Mike Frost points out again why choosing missional as a destination is such a scenic route. In The Road to Missional he acts as experienced tour guide to help us know both what to look for and what we are seeing on this journey. Every church leader on the missional path will want to have this volume handy.
—Reggie McNeal, missional leadership specialist, Leadership Network
As I read Michael’s description of a missional church functioning rightly in a world that’s gone wrong, I felt myself thirsting for such an experience on a global scale. The world should see us and want Jesus--plain and simple. Unfortunately, that is quite the opposite of the current state of the church in the world. We need to consider today what Michael is saying in this book.
—Neil Cole, founder and executive director, Church Multiplication Associates
The Road to Missional provides an inspired dose of clarity to the growing missional movement. It sets the stage to shift the conversation toward a deeper understanding and intentional pursuit of incarnational mission.
—Matt Smay, director, Mission Publishing
- Title: The Road to Missional: Journey to the Center of the Church
- Author: Michael Frost (minister)
- Series: The Shapevine Series
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Mission of the church
- ISBNs: 9781441257109, 9780801014079, 1441257101, 0801014077
- Resource ID: LLS:RDMSSNLJRNYCNTR
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:36:17Z