Eric Simmons, What is the Missional Life?

Eric Simmons, a fellow pastor and friend, has written a great article, "What is the Missional Life?" In this article Eric, equips us to live a missional life in our own neighborhoods, coffee shops, and grocery stores. To motivate you to read the whole article on the 9marks website, here's the introduction:

Welcome to my neighborhood. Here’s what it looks like:-the lady ringing up my order at Panera Bread who is a lesbian;-the neighbor with everything that life seems to offer—the big house, the Lexus, the beautiful wife, the straight-A kids;-the guy next to me in the gym who is committing adultery and destroying the lives of himself and his family;-the guy who works in the bike shop with whom I am pursuing a friendship;-Phyllis, the 78-year-old woman who just lost her husband of 54 years.Keep looking and you’ll find just about everyone. The atheist. The mocker. The scoffer. The intellectual. The ignorant. These are people that need Jesus. These are the people that I have been called to reach. They are my mission field.What does your mission field look like? I’m sure the faces are different, but the state of their soul before God is not.