Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

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

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

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

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.