MISSIONAL vs ATTRACTIONAL...PART TWO

Mission
What comes to your mind when you think of the word mission?
Perhaps you think of a foreign country where missionaries work. Maybe you think about a soup kitchen or half-way house. You might even think of an old church in the old west.
But I think in the context of the church, mission is a task. It is an assignment, like when "M" sends James Bond out to do something. OK maybe the James Bond reference is a bit much, but you get the idea.
To compare attractional and missional is like comparing me to Tom Cruise (I'm really closer to Harrison Ford looking). It's not even close (I'll let the ones who know what I look like to judge who is better looking).
The missional church is focused on what they believe God has called them to do. The worship service on Sunday becomes a celebration of what God has done through the week. They put their faith in action, to serve, not to be served.
I guess that's really what it boils down to. The attractional model seems to say, "what do we do to put people in the pews?" The missional model says, "what do we do to get people out of the pews and into a ministry?"
You might think this is a new thing, but Jesus told us to make disciples, and disciples, as least as far as I can tell, got involved in their churches as well as different communities.
I think the bonus here is that when churches are missional, they do tend to attract people, it's not why we do it, but I've found that as churches step out in faith, God blesses what they do.
Now I know that sometimes that means we move out of our comfort zones, and that makes us feel...well uncomfortable. But we have a choice, take the easy road that might get you some more people, well at least more people for awhile. Or we can join God on a mission, and in so doing grow as Christians, and our churches becomes healthier in the process.
Some would argue that I'm talking about a works based theology, but please understand, if God changes us, he changes every part of us. James tells us that faith without works is dead, C. S. Lewis explains it this way, you can't have one without the other, that it's like a pair of scissors, it takes both blades to cut. One without the other is pretty much useless.
Will your church accept the mission?
Or will it be mission impossible?