Alan Hirsch Defines “Missional”
On October 24, 2008 I posted “The Timely Death of Words: the failure of language to capture the life of a movement” about the drawbacks of attaching a title to a movement. Movements and words are dynamic and nuanced and they often have difficulty converging. Alan Hirsch, self-proclaimed “missional activist” wrote a piece for Leadership Journal called “Defining Missional”. Not surprisingly, Alan does as good of a job as is possible of defining “missional”. While I’m not big of labeling everything to death, the article is a good read. It is also accompanied by missional family tree.


