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

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

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

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.

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.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

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