Missional Church is our only Hope!

Frost and Hirsh in "The Shaping of Things to Come" continue...

The heart of the problem is church planting movements is, "that we have small carbon copies of the already beleagured, failing, Christendom -style church. The Christendom virus is passed on. It's like Dr. Evil, in Mike Myers' rediculous Austin Powers movies, creating a clone called Mini-Me. By duplicating a failing system, we are digging the same hole deeper in our attempt to dig somewhere else. It is more often than not that Sunday services are planted and not missional Jesus communities.

Mission is not merely an activity of the church. It is the very heartbeat and the work of God. It is in the very being of God that the basis for the missionay enterprise is found. God is a sending God, with the desire to see humankind and creation reconciled, redeemed, and healed. The missional church, then, is a sent church. It is a going church, a movement of God through His people, sent to bring healing to a broken world. ...The existing church which is invariably static, rooted in one place, institutionalized, needs to rediscover its sent-ness in order to become the missional church."