(this will interest Brian especially)
I just found this link and this is not what I'm saying AT ALL. Whoever wrote this piece contends that "missional" is just another word for "emergent". I couldn't disagree more intensely. What I'm suggesting is that neither term is very helpful. Perhaps both were for a time; or never were.
I'm still using the term 'missional' with positive connotations in my own life and thinking. But, I do think that I'm looking for an alternative. Now, I very well may abandon this search altogether and continue to use the word missional indefinitely (as I have found it a quite helpful descriptive for the past several years).
I'm just trying to ask the question, "has the word lost its punch"? And, if so, are we willing to do the hard work to find new terms that better describe the life of the church as we see it?
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