Ryan BolgerI just discovered an video on the Allelon site where Alan Roxburgh (author of The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World) interviews Ryan Bolger (author of Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures).

It’s a pretty good interview–helps clarify some stuff about missional and emerging church. Some of the things they talk about include:

–what the missional church is
–Bolger’s own journey
–what the emerging church is
–the connection between the missional church and the emerging church

Bolger offers some helpful distinctions between the missional church and the emerging church (and he admits he is speaking in broad categorizations). Here’s one of the differences between the two (not an exact quote):

The missional church asks, “How do existing churches begin to truly live out the mission of God in the world?”

The emerging church asks, “How do we live as an authentic community of believers in this culture?”

Click here to see the video.