Posted on April 8, 2009 - by Stephen Murray

Being Missional Down on Earth

Discussing all things missional can bring with it a certain amount of guilt as we face up to the fact that often its just so much easier to talk about being missional than it is to actually go out and just do it. We get excited about getting together with some missional thinkers (as I’m hoping to do next week) at the local pub discussing missional theory and drinking beer, we read books, blogs and attend conferences and then we turn around and realise that for all the theory there really isn’t all that much missional activity going on in our own lives. The guilt sets in.

My wife and I experienced this a lot last year as we planned and talked about  the church plant - we got so caught up in the experience of dreaming missional that when we woke up from the dreaming we realised that there wasn’t anything particularly missional going on in our lives. The guilt set in.

We’ve since taken steps to rectify that and make being missional part of who we are as a family and as we live out our life in the city of Cape Town. We haven’t really stopped dreaming, and I hope we never do, but we’ve started to earth a lot of what we’ve been dreaming about in the past. The guilt has subsided.

Jonathan Dodson seems to be a guy who knows what down to earth missional activity is and looks like. He also seems to know how to engage in it without bringing along a sack of guilt that just ruins the experience. Go read his ‘8 Ways to Easily be Missional‘ and be liberated and missional at the same time.