Missional Characteristics

The Missional Church:

• understands the centrality of the Gospel
• embraces the calling of God to act as a missionary to its own culture
• acknowledges its purpose is to glorify God by taking Christ into the irreligious world
• boldly and intentionally encounters unbelievers
• actively seeks to be trained and equipped as a missionary through its Gospel community
• is deeply dependent upon the Holy Spirit as agent for evangelizing the lost world
• commits to the authoritative, infallible, inerrant, inspired, and all sufficient Scriptures
• develops relationships with the lost for the purpose of sharing Christ
• uses sacrificial love as its means of witness
• is an instrument in helping others discover Jesus
• is affected in every area of its life through a calling by God to be an agent for the Gospel
• practices its faith in communities of people – together
• worships God in an authentic, personal and evangelistic way