You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

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.

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.