What if all of a sudden your church just disappeared off the face of the Earth? How would you feel? I know I would be asking a lot of questions. I would be hurt, sad, confused, and frustrated, but one thing would be certain…I would need a new church. I would start searching as soon as I could. At least, that’s what I hope I would do. Maybe my church has sucked me in with its attractional model and I wouldn’t ‘feel the same anywhere else’. Maybe I would be compelled to start living amongst foreign people and start my own church. I don’t know for sure, but I do know what I think. I have been reading recently in Alan Hirsch’s book the Forgotten Way that there are two forms major forms of church these days: the Missional-Incarnational church and the attractional church. Hirsch makes and argument that the attractional church does a good job of pulling people in and making Christians out of unbelievers within a certain community, however, those people are then extracted from their culture and assimilated into the culture of the church. The Missional-Incarnational church, on the other hand, embeds itself in a culture, learning the ways of unchurched people of various backgrounds with several barriers between them and the church and tries to reach them for Christ over time eventually making disciples and sending those people out into the world. I have a problem with both of these models, however.  Jesus did both. Jesus preached to large crowds and did mass healings. The Bible suggests He may even have been quite charismatic, but He did the incarnation thing like we could never even imagine doing it. I mean the GOD of the UNIVERSE put on human skin for thirty years before He even began to preach. My response to this idea is that if we truly seek to be like Christ we must do as He did and embrace both of these forms of church. We have to be willing to cross cultural boundaries, but we can’t give up on our own communities. What if we did church in a Missional-Incarnational-Attractional way?