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

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

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.

There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.