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.

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

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.

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

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

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.