Great Question. I have been wondering about the same thing.
jason clark : emergent-uk: Hiding behind Mission - more on sociological wrappers
How many people hide behind the growing term, "missional church". We can locate ourselves as christians in a post-christian country, and declare we need to be missional.
And we get rid of sundays, teaching, preaching, training, planning, and have candle, ambient music, food, and say we are missional. Or are we just hiding from what the modern church avoided all along, real mission.
As I read Roland Allen, and Vincent Donovan, and Lesslie Newbigin, I think they would see through our smoke screen of postmodern trendiness, and ask, well has getting rid of all the things from the modern church freed you for mission, real mission, serving the community and each other? Or is it great idea we hide behind to fool ourselves and cover our lack of confidence and self centredness?
