This is a summary of a recent Alan Hirsch conference held in Edmonton for the C&MA. The two day affair certainly left its mark on those who engaged the topic (and less so for the select gray haired folks sleeping or reading emails).
After one of the days I asked Alan a question, "how do you take a missional message to the most right-wing conservative attractional churches in the entire country, isn't it frustrating?"
He humbly replied part of it had to do with calling, I for one would get frustrated. Nonetheless, Hirsch provided a challenging summary to a group of evangelicals, some searching for answers, others still skeptical about this whole 'missional movement'.
For us there was little new, but for the rest, as Hirsch put it, "we already know the answers." Continue reading