Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

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.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.