By Jeremy Myers Filed Under Church Planting, Ecclesiology, Mission Written on March 13, 2011

10 Questions to Determine if your Church is Missional or Traditional

A new post has gone up over at GraceGround.com. It is “10 Questions to Determine if your Church is Missional or Traditional.” Here is one of the questions:

6. A single mother comes up to you after church one day for advice. Due to work and her busy schedule, she can only attend one “church function” a week, either the Sunday morning service or her Tuesday night “Life Group.” She confides in you that she actually “gets more out of the Tuesday night group and is developing good relationships there” but would feel guilty “skipping church” on Sunday. What do you tell her?

Head on over there to read the other nine, and then let me know: Is your church missional or traditional?

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http://cognitivediscopants.wordpress.com Chris M

Jeremy,
That was a really insightful list of questions. I had to laugh at the first one about changing the name of the church. My church has a name that’s a throwback to the 70s. When I was on leadership a few years ago I suggested that we consider updating the name. I might just as well have suggested that we start worshipping Baal. It was NOT happening. Oh well, on other grounds we do a little better.

http://www.tillhecomes.org Jeremy Myers

Chris,
Yes, church names are hard to change. My dad pastors a community church that changed the name a while back. There was a huge outcry from the community – not even people who attended the church! – that the church eventually had to change the name back. In his case, where the church is a community landmark, it was probably wise to leave the name alone.