Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

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

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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

The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

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.

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.