More data is not always the answer.

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

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

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.

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

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

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.