the contemporary church, beginning with the church-growth movement and including the seeker-church movement. This is the paradigm in which I have done ministry for the past twenty-five years. The third paradigm—what I call the transformissional church—has been on the scene since about the year 2000. This is the paradigm that is beginning to minister to a postmodern world. In his book The Younger Evangelicals, Robert Webber suggests three similar paradigms expressed by the evangelical church in the