Most of us who contribute to the Missional People website are church planters who are actively engaging in everything that is written about on this website. Michael Dennis and I both work at North Village Church in Austin, TX and we are always looking for effective ways to communicate the missional concept to people in our church, [...]

Thoughts from Verge:
“Plant Jesus, not churches” -Neil Cole. Neil did a great job talking about organic movements that are centered on Jesus, not a church. He makes the case that we should be planting Jesus first and the churches will take care of themselves. Definitely a good challenge to remember that all of this… missional, church [...]

Some people around the country have called to ask what we are doing and how North Village Church got started. Although the last thing we want to do is reduce this to a cookie cutter model there are some things that are reproducible. The first starting with a burden for something different within the local [...]

Church planting is difficult… plain and simple. It is not for people who just want to be a senior pastor. It is not for people who just want to preach on a stage. It is not for people who just want to work at a church. It is not for people who want to implement [...]

In Gospel and Method Part 1, we exposed an unhealthy preoccupation with methods in church growth debates. To a degree, this debate ignores what is most critical in church planting: our understanding, articulation, and embodiment of the historic gospel of Jesus Christ. Varieties of methods, from organic house church to attractional megachurch, have been used by [...]

Method: Attractional or Organic?
Dan Kimball of Vintage Faith Church and They Like Jesus But Not the Church fame recently resurfaced the attractional-versus-incarnational debate in an article called “Missional Misgivings.” In this article, he suggests that very few missional churches are actually growing or reaching the lost, and that what we need is more attractional megachurches. Neil [...]

What should be the main focus of mission in the Christian faith? Social Justice or Evangelism? Well, it depends on who you talk to.   These are two pieces of God’s mission that seem to have been split apart in our history. 
We have seen conservative wings of Christianity stick primarily to evangelism and liberal wings [...]

There is a concern that arises in people when they hear statements like “When we are all working on mission, community happens naturally. When we’re working on community, mission gets lost somewhere.”  Their concern is that when mission is held up as ultimate then care for others will stop and members of the community will [...]

Everything was created to reflect the glory of God; however, through disobedience and rebellion all of creation was tainted and tarnished the glory of God.  God responded to this rebellion through entering into humanity history and walking amongst us, and his name is Jesus.  Jesus came to rescue and renew all that was lost through [...]

“Missional Church” is definitely a buzz-phrase that is all over the place these days. The fact that we need to label a church, “missional”, has always been a little odd to me. I mean, shouldn’t all churches be missional in their very nature? Shouldn’t a church, at it’s very core, desire to engage their culture and community [...]