"Missional living" is a Christian term that describes a missionary lifestyle; adopting the posture, thinking, behaviors, and practices of a missionary in order to engage others with the gospel message. The missional church movement (see below) is a church renewal movement predicated on the necessity of missional living by Christians and the missional nature of the church. The use of the term missional has gained popularity at the end of the 20th Century due to Tim Keller, Ed Stetzer, Mike Breen, Alan Hirsch, Michael Frost, the Gospel and Our Culture Network, Allelon, as well as others to contrast the concept of a select group of "professional" missionaries with the understanding that all Christians should be involved in the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.
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“How like a prodigal doth nature seem,
When thou, for all thy gold, so common art!
Thou teachest me to deem
More sacredly of every human heart,
Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam
Of Heaven, and could some wondrous secret show,
Did we but pay the love we owe,
And with a child’s undoubting wisdom look
On all these living pages of God’s book.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)