Becoming Missional

Last night I was lying awake, as is often the case, thinking about how there are a plethora of books about the missional church, but not one that I can think of about how to be a missional Christian. I've read most of the significant books on missional thinking, and while they're excellent and have shaped my thinking tremendously, they are all written primarily for pastors. (The one exception to this that I have found is a book to be released in May 2008 by Ed Stetzer.) While I've enjoyed and benefited immensely from the writings of Frost & Hirsch, Guder, Stetzer and the like, I think that the average Christ follower would look right over the very pastoral titles of these books, and if not, would shrink away in fear once they flipped through the pages. And while all of these authors challenge, and to some extent teach, pastors to equip their people be missional, none are really resources that I could put in the hands of my people and feel confident they they would read them or would be impacted by them in the same way I have been.

Anyways, this got me to thinking: what if someone provided a resource to help the vast majority of Christians who are not professional pastors become missional? That would be really cool, I thought. Then it hit me, Dwight, why don't you do it? So, that's what this will hopefully become.

And it really is about becoming. Not just about a website becoming what I envision it to be, but about me, and the rest of you brothers and sisters in the Church, becoming truly missional. Because I have to be the first to admit that I'm not there yet. I'm pretty much there on missional thinking. It's the missional LIVING that seems to be the hangup for me. Thus, I hope that my journey in becoming missional in thinking and in life, and leading the people God has entrusted into my care to do the same, will help you to walk ever closer to our Lord and to fulfill His mission to the world.