It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.
Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
More data is not always the answer.