What's In A Name?

Starting in January, 2010, we will be changing the name of our small group gatherings from Missional Communities to Community Groups prompting the question “what’s in a name?”

We originally used the name Missional Communities because the idea of living “missionally” is new for many people (read more on this here and here). While this has been useful to help many Christians re-think their lifestyle, it is not necessarily the easiest thing to explain, particularly to those people to whom we are trying to demonstrate and proclaim the Gospel.

Is it really missional to declare to everyone that they are your mission field? Maybe. But then again, maybe it actually serves to alienate the very people we are trying to reach, serve and love with the Gospel.

We believe that the people of Church of the Cross no longer need to have the word “missional” put in front of them at every turn because we are starting to live it.

For us, it has actually become more missional not to use the word.