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.

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

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

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

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

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.

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.