While it's en vogue to use the word 'missional' in church circles, many people struggle to know what it means or how to live it out. Missional Essentials puts flesh around the bare bone foundations, principles, and practices of missional life. Missional Essentials is written to help followers of Christ rediscover the heart of God for their neighborhoods and communities. It provides twelve practical sessions for cultivating a missional life and mobilizing a faith community to participate more fully in God's mission. Each lesson provides participants with: Central themesInsightful articlesReflection questionsAction steps to help readers engage their communitiesThis guide is ideal for existing leadership teams that are engaging the missional conversation, small groups interested in exploring the paradigms and biblical directives for mission community, and church planting core teams seeking to develop a missional DNA in their faith context.