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

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

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.

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

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.