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.

Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

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

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