When Christ calls people, he invites them on a journey—a journey taken together in community. We have reached a point in history, however, when we think of the church as a fixed place where isolated individuals show up, consume a Christian message, drink some coffee, and get on with their lives. The times demand, and the gospel proclaims, that we recover our identity as a church that is a people on a quest for the kingdom of heaven, formed intimately by a loving God and called onto a long journey for the sake of our neighbors and our world. In The Missional Quest you?ll learn how to take your church on a long run, and how to sustain yourselves and one another along the way, through the power of God for the sake of the world.



Lance Ford is a missional church leader from Kansas City, Missouri, and cofounder and director of the Sentralized Conference. He is also author of Unleader, Right Here, Right Now (with Alan Hirsch) and Missional Essentials (withBrad Brisco).







Brad Brisco is a missional church leader from Kansas City, Missouri and cofounder and director of the Sentralized Conference. Coauthor of Missional Essentials with Lance Ford, Brisco runs the influential Missional Church Network website.



Foreword by Ed Stetzer

Introduction

Section One

Fostering a Missional Mindset (How Should My Church be Thinking?)

1. The Starting Line: Where the Missional Journey Begins

Section Two

Fostering a MissionalPosture (What Steps Are Necessary?)

2. Stop and Go: Rhythms of Inner Formation

3. AD 30 All Over Again: Emphasizing Missionary Formation

4. Won't You Be My Neighbor?: Knowing and Loving the Ones We Live Among

5. Home, Work and God's Mission: Engaging Your First and Second Places

6. Where Everybody Knows Your Name: The Importance of Third Places

7. Launching Pads: Small Groups Becoming Missional Communities

8. Follow the Follower: Developing a Missional Leadership Approach

9. Have a Great Trip: What Matters in the Long Run

Appendix: "Sending Passages" in John's Gospel

Acknowledgments

Notes

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