Missional Church has been quite the buzz in the evangelical church world. As with any buzz, it has a polarizing effect. People often adopt or reject a concept before they have properly understood it. This creates a bandwagon effect, uncritical early adopters who adopt an idea and jump on the bandwagon, without depth of understanding.
Alternatively, there are the hypercritical naysayers, those who naysay missional church as a fading fad. Ironically, the hypercritical naysayers commit the same error as the uncritical early adopters. Both responses fail to adequately investigate just what “missional church†is. As a result, uncritical early adopters, hypercritical naysayers, and even well meaning leaders, pastors, and church planters are contributing to the failure of missional church. If missional church is to succeed, we must understand: 1) What missional church is. 2) How we smuggle “institutional church†into it. 3) How to become intuitively missional.
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