But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
More data is not always the answer.
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.