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.

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

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.