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

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

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 cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.