If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

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.

Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

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

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