You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.
Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.