Can Attractional Churches be "Missional?"

I had a great discussion with my boss yesterday, a discussion that I've had with countless others regarding church and specifically church planting.  There has been this ongoing discussion in evangelical circles as to whether the most effective approach to doing church (which by the way I hate the phrase "doing church") is an attractional or missional one.

While I am not an expert in either an attractional or missional approach, I've had some experience with each and have read widely on both approaches.  In short the attractional model refers to creating an "attractive" church environment: building, band, lights, entertaining topical preaching whereby unchurched people will be drawn to the excellence of the church's menu and will soon give their lives to Christ.  The basic idea is that people will "come to church" if its exciting and attractive.  Now this is admittedly a gross overgeneralization of the attractional model, but I believe its still pretty accurate.

The missional model is a bit more ambiguous.  "Missional" itself has become a buzzword for many, and to be honest I think a lot of church leaders use the word to be trendy, to take a stab at being a part of the next big "thing" in church history.  In short, a missional approach is recognizing that the Church is "on mission" to share the good news of Jesus.  Perhaps the best definition I've come across for missional is that of Alan Hirsch who defines missional church as: "a community of God's people that defines itself, and organizes itself around, its real purpose of being an agent of God's mission to the world."  A missional approach is more concerned with "taking church to the people" instead of getting people to come to church.

Now this is a discussion that warrants more unpacking than I will offer here, but I want to pose a question.  Can an attractional church be missional?  In other words, is one approach more right than the other and is there room for both approaches even in the same church?

To put my cards on the table I recently moved to a new church that would definitely be lumped in the attractional box.  The lights are nice, the band is good, the children's ministry is top notch, and the preaching is mostly topical.  Yet, here's a little more of a description, next week roughly 40 of us will go and serve the poor together, a good percentage of this church are doing life together in small groups, and over the course of this church's short existence many people have begun the journey of following Jesus.

Is there room for both?  I might question some of the attractional methodologies but at the end of the day if its about preaching Christ than I'm in.  I think there is room for both.  I don't think its an either/or discussion.  I think its a both/and one.  Every church should be missional, and every church should be proclaiming the compelling, beautiful, and attractive good news of Jesus!

What are your thoughts?