Even the simplest linguistic analyses can be very revealing. Attractional ministry, most simply, focuses on “come to us”. It is a model of ministry, a way of doing Church. A while back, I downloaded and read the five most viewed articles on attractional ministry. In these articles, the proportionate emphasis on God was 1%, and on the Church 99%. Or, if one included Christ in His humanity (not deity), it was God in His divinity and humanity 10%, and Church 90%. That says something about where the focus lies. OBSERVATION: An alternative is of course to make Christ Himself focal in the discussion -- and this is receiving increasing attention now. See for example Three Ways Attractional Church Needs to Change. I come to this post because I listened to a local gangster who said he would not in his life have responded to an attractional Church. He responded to an evangelist.
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