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.

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

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.

Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.