The next step in the missional conversation is to move beyond mission itself.

Christianity in the West is dying. Addiction to hierarchical and bureaucratic power is killing it. The Management-God and the Mission-God have usurped the Way of Christ. In the midst of decline the Missional Movement is attempting to reboot the Church. Its goal is to remake a New Christian West through mission, leadership, mapping and planning. Yet it is trapped in the language and methods of modernity. Its final solution is a polarising vision of cultural domination by one social group; the Christians.   

The Way of Life and Truth has been forgotten. Christ is not a conquering King, a written Word or an absolute Idea-but a divine Human Being. Social wholeness can only be realised through a rediscovery of Conversation, Reconciliation and Empowerment. These reflect Christ’s practices of eternal dialogue and reciprocal giving in small communities. Through this mutual Way of Life people of all faiths and none can discover deep within themselves Our Un/Known G-d.  A gentle voice is whispering in the heart of all humanity; ‘I am …the Way.’  

Missional: Impossible!: The Death of Institutional Christianity and the Rebirth of G-d by Francis Rothery Permalink: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1484115023