The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

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

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

If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

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.

When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.