but applying the term missional to the evangelistic enterprise only dilutes the impact of the call to embrace the missional, making it appear that it is just another way of saying get-out-there-and-inviteyour-unsaved-friends-to-church, which it is definitely not. By subverting the missional paradigm into an exclusively evangelistic enterprise, we corrupt its essential logic. And when church leaders read evangelism as a chiefly come-to-us activity, they end up thinking that being missional is just
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