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.

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

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

In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

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

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

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.