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Missional Labs is a global community of innovators, builders, and funders, working together to advance the Gospel and renew the Church, through a new generation of high-impact ministries.
This is our digital journal.
To be missional is to think and act “like a missionary.” It captures the idea of being called, empowered, and sent, as someone with fresh imagination for the ways Jesus wants to encounter modern people.
For Christians, mission is fundamental to our nature. As biblical scholar Richard Bauckham says:
“The church’s mission is not a steadily cumulative process in which we move ever further away from the biblical narratives…We are always figuratively starting again from Jerusalem on our way to the ends of the earth. We are always starting again from Jesus who is the one human for all others, and we are always starting again from Pentecost, the event that gives birth to the new community on its way to the new future.”
Missional imagination always starts again from the upper room, in each cultural moment, and moves outward creatively and courageously.
This newsletter is a window into our community of practice, as we explore the opportunities and challenges of mission in our cultural moment. We live in era full of challenge, but also full of unprecedented promise and opportunity for the Gospel
The space in between is for missional imagination - the heartbeat of our work.
We aim to bring multi-disciplinary perspectives on missional theory and practice, for individual followers of Jesus, and also for churches, networks, ministries, and their leaders, to help us explore how we might join God’s mission of renewal and redemption in the world in credible, compelling ways.
Our “angles” in this newsletter are:
Leaders - We typically write for leaders that love the Church (or at least the possibility of the Church) and are interested in the “shaping of things to come.”
Global Mission - We write on the larger trends and forces shaping our world, in the West but also in the rest of global Christianity.
Innovation - We’re interested in the interaction of Christianity with the “frontiers” that are shaping our world, particularly as it relates to technology, new media, and new organizational models.
Our readers skew towards (1) Pastors, ministry leaders, and people generally concerned with the mission of the church, and (2) Christians interested in technology, design, innovation, and cultural trends.
Say hello! Thanks for reading.
