Missional in Your Context
The right structure provides a very clear, intentional pathway for your people to progress toward mission.
The culture is what pushes everybody toward that pathway. At Victory, they have 50,000 people who are turning to their neighbors and consistently asking, “Have you gone through One-to-One? Have you been to a Victory Weekend?” Their structure and their culture work together to affirm their values.
This is a process for your church. At Grace, our plan is to get the whole church walking through our pathway, but it’s going to take a while. We have our clear path established and the desired culture expressed. For you and your church, it may look different in terms of the specifics.
Joey was clear that he doesn’t believe American churches can come over and copy Victory’s method step-by-step. They have to be contextualized to the setting of your church. Victory’s plan works in their Asian context. Joel Hunter, at Northland in Florida, has worked to adapt some of what Victory has done, but it is tweaked to fit where God has planted them.
If you want your church to be missional, you need to implement a structure that encourages the culture you are trying to develop. When your culture and structure are in sync, they will move your church, regardless of its size, toward being missional. If you set your face like flint toward your goal, with your culture and structure in support, you can move to missional.
