It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

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

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

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

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

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.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.