The missional understanding of church opens the door to a reevaluation of the relationship between the church and the Kingdom, with an expanded view of God’s work in the world. For missional thinkers, church is a verb, a way of being in the world. It is not a place where certain religious rites are conducted. Nor is the church a vendor of religious goods and services.[1] The notion of the church as a place, or as a dispenser of programs, is a relic of an era of Christendom that is rapidly diminishing,