While it's popular to use the word 'missional' in church circles, many people struggle to know what it means or how to live it out. Missional Essentials fills this void, putting flesh around the bare bone foundations, principles and practices of missional life. Missional Essentials is written to help followers of Christ rediscover the heart of God for their neighborhoods and communities. It provides twelve practical sessions for cultivating a missional life and mobilizing a faith community to participate more fully in God's mission. Each lesson provides participants with: Central Themes Insightful Articles Reflection Questions Action Steps to Help Readers Engage Their Communities This guide is ideal for existing leadership teams that are investigating the missional conversation, small groups interested in exploring the paradigms and biblical directives toward missional community, and church planting core teams seeking to develop a DNA of missional principles and practices as a way of shaping and forming their faith community. This much-needed interactive guide takes the reader beyond the 'missonal' buzzword and into truly living missionally. | MISSIONAL ESSENTIALS by Brad & Ford Brisco, Paperback | Indigo Chapters