Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.