The report on Mission-Shaped Church is being used all over England in the training of people for public ministry and yet so far there have been no formal critical responses to the report. Here for the first time then is a considered theological response to the key issues. Whilst the author shares the hopes for a renewal of the church he raises here critical questions about the attitudes we hold onto whilst we go about creating cell churches, cafe churches, theatre, pub and school churches. Whilst the original Report may suggest mission-shaped church, what it actually seems to support is church-shaped mission.