So, my hope is that someone who is a Rick Warren purpose-driven thinking person can begin reading why change is needed in the seeker-sensitive type of a church today and not be offended or freak out. I think I made a case for why change is needed and tried to give insight into the culture and emerging generations and who they are.

The book is also for those in the emerging church who are looking to be able to have some clarity to their feelings and be able to explain why they sense change is needed. And for them to also have practical examples of how emerging churches are changing the way they design worship gatherings, preach, evangelism etc. 

I tried to move into some actual reconstruction of ways to be in ministry in this post-Christian time period we are moving into so it isn't just theory or discussion about what is wrong with the current state of the church. I tried to begin moving into what we can begin trying to do about it all.

Now there are some good signs of hope too. I am meeting with a staff of a very modern church next week who have read the book and want to discuss what they can do. The senior pastor there recognizes something is needed, and isn't just brushing off postmodernism as a fad or trend but a reality they need to rethink and redesign their categories and approach to what they are doing. So, there is some encouraging things going on in some churches too when the senior leaders aren't afraid of the discussion or dismiss it. 

A major point I would like people to know if they don't already, is that while many of us have been busy in our churches preparing sermons, designing worship services, and 4-point sermons to modern thinking people a new world is being birthed all around us. And the people of this post-Christian world are not coming into most of our churches. Maybe the modern-thinking ones and the younger people who grew up in a church are visiting, but not the post-Christian, post-seeker generations who didn't grow up in church.

I also think that a major point in all this is that there are wonderful modern churches which are packed with people, and God is using them tremendously. But there is a need for new types of churches too. Don't be afraid or threatened about that.

There are emerging generations who are not part of these modern churches and they are the ones we must be rethinking the culture and what the role of the church is in a missional way. Different types of churches are needed for various people groups who will think and form ministry much different than another. This doesn't mean one type of church is right and the other wrong, or even one outdated and the other isn't. Its about being missional in a multi-cultured America and a multi-world view America.