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

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

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

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

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

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

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.