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This booklet is designed to be an easy-to-read, non-academic book for those who, like me, struggle, think and reflect about church and mission. Hopefully, it will be food for thought, inspire, encourage and open up a wealth of possibilities. I will argue that God has a mission to reach every single person in our communities – that, as Archbishop Rowan Williams puts it - every person should encounter Jesus and be sustained in that encounter. Yet the model, in terms of both structure and mission strategy, we have for being church is not fit for purpose, and if we are to seriously engage with the mission of God then a radical shake-up of the way we be church needs to take place. I argue that it is reasonable to assume that God has gone ahead of us and that it is by looking at the dysfunctionality in, what should be a functional church, that we might detect signs of God’s plan to fulfil his mission. I then use this information to imagine what church might be like in the future.