But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.