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.

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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.

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

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

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.