Now I'm not totally dismissing what you've said so far...I'm just asking more questions...

Greg, you're just like a couple of Apostle friends of mine(and that's not a bad thing)...we prophet types like to question everything you guys do...hahaha

why do we have to define that word?  Did paul have a definition for it? If so what was it? 

Does it matter to the kingdom wether someone is acting missionally, churchally, religiously, or just acting if people are being served and loved?  Of course we would say that the individual is missing something if the motivation isn't found in Christ's life in us, but why do I need a definition to descern if someone's motivation is pure?

We aren't discerning anything anyway...the holy spirit is discerning it and telling us what we need to know.  Peter was told by the holy spirit what ananias and sapphira had done.  I don't think Peter just "knew" something was up nor was it just "subjective intuition," it was a divine word given to him by God.  I'm not sure I understand why a definition of the word missional is going to make our jobs in the 5 fold ministry easier or more effective.

I feel like through the era of "modernity" we have so intelectualized the Gospel that we have no room or need for the Holy Spirit.  In our attempt to control this thing we've choked the life out of it.  We are so afraid that if our hands are taken off then the whole thing will implode.   I don't believe Paul or the early church had the kind of restraints we have today that we call "acountability."  I believe it was a different way of being the church at that time. 

Today's accountability is a way to control things so they don't go wrong.

The early church's accountability was a means to correct what went wrong.

At first glance it looks like today's idea is much better.  Let's put things into place so that nothing goes wrong in the first place so we don't have to clean up these kinds of messes.  HOWEVER, I believe this has been a dangerous move that has erased our trust in the holy spirit IN EACH OF US to will and to act according to his good purpose.  As Paul said in Romans 5:14 "I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another."

I think the early church had a better way of allowing the Spirit to do what only the Spirit could do, while physically stepping in when the need was there.  The accountability is there by the very nature of being in relationship with the very people we are holding accountable.  Paul had relationships with these folks and therefore had a standing with them. 

The entire book of Galations speaks to the concept of the exchange life and that is the very root of what it means to follow Jesus...aka being missional.  I would say that we start there and that's a pretty good start to it all.