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

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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.

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.

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

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

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