The Leadership magazine devotes this months issue to the missional church. There are some great articles about the movement of the U.S. churches to a missional approach to ministry. One of the responses is from a pastor of a church which would be considered an attractional model. He argues that the attractional church is still the best model to reach people and that missional churches are usually small with little impact and little growth.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2008/fall/14.112.html

Alan Hirsch in the same Leadership magazine gives a good definition of missional saying it "represents a significant shift in the way we think about the church, where we engage the world by going out rather than just reaching out and bringing people to church. A missional theology is not content with mission being a church-based work. Rather, it applies to the whole life of every believer." Can't an attractional church teach its members to be missional? Or does one loose it's attraction when it begins to teach and send its members to minister in the world?
Is there a balance where a church can attract and send? Can a church be both missional and attractional? Can missional and attractional co-exist?

I'd love your thoughts.