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.

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

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

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

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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.