Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

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.

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

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