This weekend we are launching our annual Missional Community Kick-Off at Praxis Church, which will focus on our vision and passion for growing smaller throughout the Phoenix valley through small communities of people who strive to live life together. More than the traditional model of small groups where people gather once or twice a month to do a Bible study or do a prayer group, Missional Communities are dedicated to living out the gospel and furthering the kingdom of God in their local context through what Ryan Eland, who oversees the Missional Community ministry, calls missional rhythms:
- Eating
- Celebrating
- Recreating
- worshiping
- serving
- investing
- learning
The goal is not to be an insular group of Christians, but a group of disciples that employ the tools the elders and ministry leaders have equipped them with to do the work of the ministry. There is no prescriptive formula to work this out practically. Each MC leader and community is charged with prayerfully considering how they might reach their community with the gospel, whether that be through BBQ’s or theology pubs.
Below is a video my Communications Team put together to promote the event, and you can also hear some stories of those who have been involved in MC’s here. Big props go out to Silas Kyler, David Hildreth, and Adam Watson for their great work on this.
Praxis Church Missional Community Promo from Praxis Church on Vimeo.
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