The debate continues. For the last two weeks, opinions have been fast and furious on the definition and validity of “missional” churches. It all began with Dan Kimball’s post about
My last post was about "missional churches", the good guys and gals at "Our of Ur" have been doing some homework about the issue. Here's the opening comments from their recent post:
his missional misgivings. He observed that many of the larger, attractional churches being criticized by pro-missional people were actually doing a pretty good job of reaching non-Christians.
Thoughts? I'm also wondering how it all ties together with a comment made at the end of the post:
Also worth adding is recent research by Lifeway showing the exodus of young adults from the church even in highly churched parts of the country.
Because the population is growing and church attendance isn't AND young adults continue to exit the churches they grew up in - IT SEEMS LIKE A SIGNIFICANT TREND TOWARDS POST-CHRISTENDOM (some would say DUH, others resist the notion) -- YET, mega churches are everywhere.
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