We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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.

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

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 missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.