Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

More data is not always the answer.

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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.

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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

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.