Missional Community Shift

We are starting to make a shift in my community of faith. We have been really good, too good, at having really effective programs. The assumption is that we would attract people of all kinds to our place. This is a model that we have inherited and were doing without much thinking, kind of a default mode. So the conversation bagan as we assessed what was going on. We were attracting people, but they were all people transfering over from other churches, either because they were disgruntled consumers or relocating from another part of the country.
So our shift is from worrying about being "attractional" and having good programs, which has resulted in many people beoming disgruntled and becoming a transfer to a different church. We are starting to explore what it will take to become a "missional community". To me this means that we will challeneged to take the life of Jesus out to people around us. Rather than expecting them to come to us. I think it is a very profound shift. We'll see where this takes us.