Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

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.

Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

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