The second thing we can do is take a long term approach like you mention BD. Try as much as possible to avoid drive by evangelism and instead just live with people. Go to parties and things that “christians” don’t usually go to and be intentional about talking about Christ. When ever I ask God to give me a spiritual conversation at a party, i nearly always get one. We can use these connections to bring seekers to coffee, beer, church, or where ever we can share with them who Christ really is.

Thirdly, don’t let other ministry people tell us, that we are a failure. If we are doing points 1 and 2 well, the mainstream Evangelical leaders might not accept us because they will view our smaller numbers as “inconsequential” and our living with people as being “pagans.” Even if our local churches won’t support the missional church, God will. That’s a fact.

Lastly, stay connected. Sharing with each other our hardships, dreams, etc. ensures we won’t get lost ourselves along the way.

Our ministry may not shoot out of the ground like an overnight plant, but maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe it’s needs more time to put down some roots, so it can grow strong and tall, so that it can mean something and so that it can weather the cold and rainy climate of the northwest.

In Miller’s other books, I would say he does a good job of working through a lite version of some of Metzger’s trinitarian/affections theology, which I think is a very biblical system. In this case I even liked the idea of the book of organizing our life around story, etc. It’s just that the movie version of story is so shallow and even good books are excluded from it. That was probably my biggest problem on the whole.

I think I just threw-up in my mouth…

I would add the criticism that it is not incarnational. Disembodied preaching moves in the opposite direction of God’s missional movement to the world in Jesus Christ.