In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

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.

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

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

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

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.

In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.