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

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

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.

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

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

More data is not always the answer.

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.