Missional Engagement is defined as the continuum of intentional, on-going, Spirit-led, engagement by an individual Christ-follower and/or collective Christ-followers towards a specific person and/or people group for the purpose of demonstrating and declaring the Gospel.

Measuring missional engagement at a collective level is a matter of creating environments that explore, model, and celebrate the practices necessary for living a life of missional engagement. Examples of this could be, conducting a Theology of Mission or Missional Practices seminar, offering a tool for intentional prayer, celebrating personal stories of missional engagement during Sunday gathering, tracking number of small groups who regularly serve community, baptism celebrations, etc. The question for gathering metrics on missional engagement at a collective level would be, “How many environments were provided to support missional engagement this month?” and “What were these environments?”

Measuring missional engagement at an individual level is based on relationships. The questions for gathering metrics on missional engagement at an individual level would be, “How many people engaged in a missional practice this month?” and “What type of missional engagement did they practice?” Gathering this data can be done through small group leaders and/or missional coaches. Each month, leaders would be asked to submit a report on these metrics. An example of this report is seen below:

Missional Engagement

Your leadership role (group leader, missional coach, elder, etc.):

How are you doing in life (Connected, Committed, Contributing)?

Names of people you are missionally engaging and where you are on the missional engagement continuum:

Your next steps in missional engagement you plan to practice this month: