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• And what I couldn’t fit into the volume you’re holding spills onto NewChurches.com/PMC, which includes additional resources to help you in church planting and multiplication.
• Establishing a missional church means you plant a church that’s engaging in God’s mission, is focused on the kingdom, and is part of the culture you’re seeking to reach.
• Mission. The word mission refers to all that God is doing to bring the nations to himself. Missions. The word missions relates to mission and refers to the pursuit of sharing and showing the gospel to all corners of the earth. Missional. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, joining Jesus on mission, learning and adapting to the cul...
• Missional is the posture—we join Jesus on his mission to people in culture—but incarnational describes what’s actually happening. Just as Christ came to live among us, we dwell with the people around us. In many ways we’re like them. But we’re changed, transformed; and because of that, we seek to change and transform.
• The concept of being incarnational as it relates to church planting emphasizes the importance of relationships in effective church planting. It’s not about establishing a location for worship; it’s about establishing a basis for coming together in the first place. Good church planting depends on good relationships.