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

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.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

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

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

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