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

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

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

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.