Explain what is meant by the word “missional”, and describe what a missional life might look like.
If I understand Chris’ explanation, “missional” encompasses the core meaning or focus of a believer’s life in fulfilling Jesus’ commission, not fulfilling our desires to get Saved and ride it on Home.
A missional life will rest upon an understanding of the core reason of a man’s existence, being realized through his Saved life. A useful believer (useful to Jesus, the only Judge Who matters) is soaked through with his continual exposure to God, the stirring of the Spirit, to quicken him into seeing, understanding, embracing, and doing the work for which we were Saved, per Eph 2.10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
A man engaged in a missional life understands Who Jesus is; who he is as His slave; Jesus’ intentions; recognizes the opportunities around him; grows in the Tools he is given in the Word and the Spirit; and then operates in the authority pushed upon him that he will have a life worth examination by his Lord on the Last Day.