Missional Spirituality Project, 2023

Purpose

The primary purpose of the Missional Spirituality program is to cultivate whole of life discipleship that integrates Christian spirituality and missional praxis [i.e., the practice of our faith] for individual and communal transformation. Mission is the most urgent task for the church, because to be Christian is to participate in God’s life and vision for a reconciled world.

Objectives

The key objectives of the six-month learning journey are to:

• Introduce participants to a range of Christian spirituality and practices that connect them to God, self and neighbour.
• Show how theology (drawing on scripture and tradition) shapes spirituality, ecclesiology [study of the church] and missional praxis.
• Demystify discipleship and demonstrate what it might look like to learn and live out the way of Jesus in contemporary Australia.
• Introduce participants to contextual theology and praxis that enables a congregation to connect the gospel with their particular local contexts.
• Provide theological and practical tools for congregations to re-imagine their relationship to their local communities and learn how to co-create with neighbours.