Loren Mead (The Once and Future Church: Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier) says: 'The dilemma of the church in this transitional time is that the shells of the old structures still surround us even though many of them no longer work.'
Some of these 'shells' are institutions, some are roles, and some are mind-sets and expectations. Whatever, these need to be acknowledged, analyzed and dealt with, if we are to move on.
