Our Functioning as Laity in a Missional Community Network

Our evolving perspective* on who we are, primarily as laity within the Missional Church Network of Regina, as we seek to live out a missional lifestyle:

  • We are drawn from multiple churches, each with a personal history of Knowing God and sensing His Call to Ministry. We wish to be learners and be appropriately equipped as Missional People.
  • We seek common fellowship and mutual encouragement with others desiring to be Active in Mission, engaging effectively as Ambassadors of the Kingdom beyond the more bounded communities of local church life.
  • We are primarily practitioners, open to being informed theologically, sociologically, and experientially.  We sense a primary Call to Christian Action in both Word and Deed as our personal giftedness and collective preparation enables us.
  • We appreciate the existence of the Local Church as a place of spiritual formation and its role in “equipping of the saints for ministry.”  While not all fellow Christians will be equally called to outward mission, we nevertheless desire to encourage, support, and promote Missional Engagement.
  • We recognize the importance of contextualization, where we seek to learn and better understand the local “mission fields,” or cultural contexts, to which we are called; this implies sensitivity to culture, language, and the discerning and pursuing of openness of individuals and people groups to the reception of the Good News of Jesus Christ.
  • We desire to humbly and faithfully carry the Gospel into our World, spreading the Seed of Truth as the Holy Spirit enables it to take root within the diversity of lives and hearts wherein it may grow and flourish.
  • We value the role of the larger Body of Christ as it supports and encourages this “sending forth” of its members for Missional Engagement, even as we, in turn, attempt to share our missional experience and needs for prayer and other supports back to that nurturing home base.
  • As part of the larger Church of Jesus Christ, especially in the post-Christian culture of our Western World, we recognize the need for change, driven in part by the changing World around us, but still with confidence in the relevance of the Gospel to this present age.  We sense the continuing relevance of Christ’s command to his disciples to go out and permeate the world as with salt and light, empowered by the Holy Spirit.

* This statement is still under development.

First published:  2024/03/21
Latest revision:  2024/04/24