It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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.

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.