If We’re Not MTWABP, Why Bother?

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Mike C, co-pastor of Via Christus Community Church (which was visited and reviewed by Hemant Mehta, the eBay atheist), posted the following in comment #5 on Using Worship Services to Encourage MTWABP

This is great stuff. Our church is also very missional. Since we’re so new we’re just starting to figure out how to do and be that. The church we came from before this one was not missional at all, and almost actively discouraged it. And it was a dying church.

For me being missional is simply what it means to be the church. That’s the whole point. If we’re not MTWABP then why bother? I remember sitting in the services at my old church singing the songs and listening to another irrelevant sermon and thinking “Is this really what Jesus had in mind? Is this why he died? Just so we could get together once a week and sing songs? And is mission nothing more than trying to get a few more people to join us to help us sing songs and pay for the building?”

It just seemed so pointless… so we left (were forced out actually for rocking the boat too much) to start a new church that was more intentional about MTWABP, like Jesus told us to do.

What do you think the purpose of church should be?