1. Missional is a new trend that seminarians and pastors came up with in order to sell books.
  2. Missional means that you water down the gospel.
  3. Missional means that you wear jeans with holes in them and get a tattoo.
  4. Missional is a trendy word that basically means “evangelism”.
  5. Missional means that you don’t take people to Scripture.
  6. Missional is more about social justice and less about Jesus.
  7. Missional means you are edgy, young, and hip.
  8. Missional means that you are against mega-churches.
  9. Missional means that you go to pastor conferences and blog about them.
  10. Missional means that you avoid addressing man’s sin and God’s holiness.

This entry was posted by Tim Birdwell on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 2:29 am and is filed under Missional Living. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “10 Missional Myths”

  1. Sam DeSocio on August 27th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    ha, I have tattoos and Im missional and I feel like Im the butt of every bad example right now….what gives?

  2. Bridget Willard on August 27th, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    You nailed it. This is exactly what plagues the church today.
    Great post!
    Glad I found it!

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  5. Laura on November 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    Like the list.
    One addition I think could be made to #7 to make it a bit more true.

    “Missional means you are edgy, young, hip and male”

  6. Tim Birdwell on November 3rd, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    good addition… didn’t think about that one. thanks for stopping by!

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