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

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

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.

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.

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.