If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

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

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

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

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship