While there is nothing wrong with attracting people to participate in various meetings of the church, the missional church is more concerned about sending the people in the church out among the people of the world, rather than getting the people of the world in among the people of the church. The attractional model, which has dominated the church in the West for the past several decades, seeks to reach out to the culture and draw people into the church. However, this approach only works when there are no significant cultural barriers to overcome when making the required move from outside to inside the church.
The West looks more like a cross-cultural missionary context in which attractional church models are self-defeating. Furthermore, the process of extracting people from the culture and assimilating them into the church diminishes their ability to speak to those outside.
On the other hand, missional churches see their primary function as one of actively moving into a community to embody and enflesh the word, deed, and life of Jesus into every nook and cranny. This key distinction clarifies the difference between a church with a missions program and a missional church.
A church with a missions program usually sees missions as one activity alongside many other equally important programs of the church. All activities of the church must be catalyzed by and organized around the missio Dei.
In other words, we can no longer see the church as the starting point when thinking about mission. What is "Missional"? Sending Language. His work captured the imagination of a church in crisis and declined and shaped the thinking of generations. Available from the Internet: www.
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