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.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

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

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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.

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.