Many times we look at those inside the church as us and those outside the church as them and ask: How can we get them to come inside our church? This book challenges this “attractional” model of church in the Western world with the incarnational model, dreaming of a church which is reborn with God’s mission at its heart. It’s a change of mindset that imagines what happens when we stop talking in terms of us and them, in and out and start following Jesus by reflecting God's image in the midst of.
The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch