What are some specifics of the vision for missional communities?
• We are a church OF missional communities. Alongside our Sunday worship, missional communities are a primary vehicle for being the church and living on mission in our city. • Our communities will place a large emphasis on building a movement of the gospel. Many of our existing communities have been primarily formed and grown from church-wide announcements and events. This will remain a priority but the focus and efforts for the growth of your community will shift to include non-believers who are not part of a church. Prayer, evangelism, simple training and obedience to the Bible will remain essential values for each missional community. • Each community will live out all 4 elements of a missional church – Worship Christ, Live in Community, Get Trained, and Make Disciples. In the past, communities would often only focus on 1 or 2 of these elements. We want to encourage the practice and emphasis of all four elements among our missional communities. In this way, communities will more ful
