摘要：Everything missional is catching on. In just over twenty years since the term
missional was coined,1 an industry has developed around the concept: There are
missional books, missional conferences, missional articles, missional seminars, missional
curricula, missional churches, and missional consultants. Leaders and churches seem to
want to associate themselves with being missional. The term places a person within a
certain theological and ecclesial arena that advocates a renovation of the church as a
gathering of people carrying out the mission of God. Theologians and Christian leaders
who support missional theology conclude that this and other missional propositions about
the church¡¯s work must shape the church¡¯s visible ministry. The theology, therefore, is
being applied to ways the church acts, such as teaching, worship, service and leadership.
One particular act central to Christian worship only beginning to be explored in light of
missional theology is the act of preaching.
