Missional Church

I liked this quote on "Next Reformation" from a short review of "Introducing the Missional Church"

“The philosopher Charles Taylor calls our a ’secular age,’ in which ‘our present condition is to say that many people are happy living for goals which are purely immanent..’ People’s primary concerns are for success in this life - they rarely ask questions about the transcendent. At the same time, they are feeling terribly insecure .. Witness the recent financial crisis and the stress created.. People go to church looking for words of security and a sanctuary.. but this is the problem. Churches give people what they want: [an escape] and comfort. The church is called to be what people really need: a foretaste of God’s new creation, a movement of people who change the world, not escape it.

“In the midst of all this transition a missional church is formed by people who are starting to own that they are no longer living in a safe place.. Just as Dorothy had to learn new skills to navigate in Oz, we too must learn new skills to be missionaries in this new place.”