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Recently we faced some challenges that for a moment threatened the feasability of our church meeting.  We got through it okay but it made me question if it had all collapsed would that mean we had failed and the last seven years had been a waste of time? 
The church is or at least should be seen as essentially missional.  God is a missionary God.  The church are a pilgrim people, we are called out and sent back but we are only temporary residents.  We often see church as an institution to which we call people to and see success of a church in terms of how many members it has and its longevity. 

I believe the church is essentially organic, temporal and fluid.  It may be right for a body of believers to come together for a time but they are not necessarily covenanted together until Jesus returns.  That is not to say I don’t want to see existing churches flourish and grow. It is to say that we can’t afford to stay put and expect the world to come and join our club.  The church needs to continually incarnate itself into the world and its different communities and cultures. We need to be prepared to adapt and re:invent ourselves in order to stay fresh.  This may mean allowing a local church to die in order that new life can grow.