The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

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.

Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.