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Missional Communities: Why They Are Failing And How To Help Them Thrive, Matthew L. Murphy
Missional Communities: Why They Are Failing And How To Help Them Thrive, Matthew L. Murphy
Doctor of Ministry
Missional communities are failing. Missional communities are failing because they do not contextualize the nature, function, and historical forms of the church. Specifically, missional communities fail due to lack of leadership, gospel proclamation, incarnational living to a particular people, and mission dependence on the Holy Spirit. All of these things stem from not putting the nature, function, and historical forms of the church before modern forms.
Missional communities will begin to thrive if communities will not just copy forms of other missional churches, but if they will contextualize the nature, functions, and historical forms of the church in their own …