"Mission is not merely an activity of the church. It is the very heartbeat and work of God. It is in the very being of God that the basis for the missionary enterprise is found. God is a sending God, with a desire to see humankind and creation reconciled, redeemed and healed. The missional church, then, is a sent church. It is a going church, a movement of God through his people, sent to bring healing to a broken world…The existing church, which is invariably static, rooted in one place, institutionalized, needs to recover its sent-ness in order to become the missional church."

- Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to Come