Missional Community: A Defintion
“A Missional Community (also called Clusters, Mid-Sized Communities, Mission Shaped Communities, MSC’s) is a group of anything from 20 to 50+ people who are united, through Christian community, around a common service and witness to a particular neighborhood or network of relationships. With a strong value on life together, the group has the expressed intention of seeing those they impact choose to start following Jesus, through this more flexible and locally incarnated expression of the church. The result will often be that the group will grow and ultimately multiply into further missional communities. Missional Communities are most often networked within a larger church community (often with many other Missional Communities). These mid-sized communities, led by laity, are ‘lightweight and low maintenance’ and most often meet 3-4 times a month in their missional context.”
