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

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

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.

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

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

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.