There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

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.

You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

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.