When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.