During my DMin program we read The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church and here is one of my comments during the discussion of it:

Frost and Hirsch think of the church as incarnational, not attractional. As an incarnational church, it’s main purpose is to “come into the neighborhood” and minister for the sake of the world rather than created a “sacred place” where believers gather to encounter the good news of Jesus.

When I read the following on page 15 “Christendom is not the biblical mode of the church. It was/is merely one way in which the church has conceived of itself.” I thought of the following questions.

• How many of the churches represented in this cohort are more aligned to Christendom (as these authors, and other authors as well, define the concept) than missional?
• How many of the churches represented in this cohort who might be aligned to Christendom think they can be missional in a Christendom skirt? How?
• What do you think “revolution” means to the authors?
• How many buy into the author’s concept of revolution over reorganization?