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

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.

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

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

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.