Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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.

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

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