"The absolutely vital issue for newer emerging churches will be their capacity to become genuinely missional. If they fail to make this shift, then they too will be another readjustment of Christendom. A mere fad. As we will see throughout this book, new and emergent forms of church are the result of being missional, not the other way around. I therefore present the same challenge here to my brothers and sisters in the emerging church as I do to the established church: if you don't just want to be another church fad, don't just make the service and spirituality suit a postmodern audience, start at another place- put the M in the equation first, and the EC will follow."

-Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways