I had an interesting thought today about the word, “missional.” If you type the word in Microsoft Word you’ll notice it gets underlined. This means Microsoft thinks the word is misspelled or doesn’t exist. Even in WordPress the word is not recognized. This likely means the word hasn’t entered out lexicon as a general idea or thought. It still lives on the fringes.
This really surprised me given our history of war as a human race. It surprises me that we have never considered the word mission as a way of operating or moving. It also means that the word can easily be misused, misread, ignored, abused, or treated unkindly. And in a media saturated age where everything happens at light speed, the word can become passe very quickly.
I think this is because we’re still looking for and understanding what the mission is. People want to live misisonally but they dont’ know what the mission looks like or how to engage it. We’re still learning the story and what it means to follow Jesus into God’s mission. We know how to talk about the right way to live, but we don’t know what it means to live the right way. We’re good at hearing the word and even memorizing it, but we don’t know yet what it means to live it out.
Good point. Living is more challenging then talking about it. However once we do live it the rewards are, well they are eternal.
Yes they are Johnny.
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