Missional-Incarnational Impulse: How does living like Christ serve God's mission?

In order to understand Hirsch's chapter on what mission in today's world can be, one must acknowledge that the predominate culture in Western society is no longer culturally Christian. The majority of people in our world and our communities have significant cultural barriers impeding their understanding of the Gospel message as the Western church presents it. The mission strategy promoted in many contexts is one of evangelistic-attraction--bringing people into the community of the church through attractive worship, ministry programs, and so on.

Hirsch proposes instead a sneeze-like model of incarnational mission. Incarnational ministry, based on Christ's incarnation, has four dimensions: presence (being fully present in the lives of others), proximity (living life amongst the broken and needy), powerlessness (taking on the form of a servant), and proclamation (calling people to repentance in view of God's redemptive action). In Hirsch's model, the people of the church follow Christ's example in their local contexts and birth new churches--staying true to the gospel and interpreting it in culturally relevant ways. He provides a thorough example of how a ministry developes

What are the primary challenges of developing a church culture based on the mission-incarnational impulse? How does one discern a ministry of cultural relevance from a ministry that has assimilated the culture?

How does a youth minister lead youth in living the four dimensions of the incarnation?