Thereโs no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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.
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.