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.

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.

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.

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

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

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.