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.

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.