>Continuing our look at the “Missional Church”
If you’ve missed the flow of discussion, take a look at my previous postings:
1) A New Way of Doing Church 
2) Missional – A Change in Thinking 
3) Description of a Missional Church

What the Missional Church is Not

• The missional church is not a dispenser of religious goods and services or a place where people come for their weekly spiritual fix.
• The missional church is not a place where mature Christians come to be fed and have their needs met.
• The missional church is not a place where “professionals” are hired to do all the work of the church.
• The missional church is not a place where the “professionals” teach the children and youth about God to the exclusion of parental responsibility.
• The missional church is not a church with a “good missions program.” The people are the missions program and includes going to “Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
• The missional church is not about a new strategy for evangelism.
• The missional church is not missional just because it is contemporary, young, hip, postmodern-sensitive, seeker-sensitive or even traditional.
• The missional church is not about big programs and organizations to accomplish God’s missionary purpose. This does not imply no program or organization, but that they will not drive mission. They will be used in support of people on mission.
• The missional church is not involved in political party activism, either on the right or left. As Brian McLaren wrote, we need “purple peoplehood” — people who don’t want to be defined as red or blue, but have elements of both.

Related posts:

1. What the Missional Church Looks like
2. Missional – A Change in Thinking
3. Michael Frost on the Missional Church
4. A new way of doing church?
5. Description of A Missonal Church