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

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

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

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

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

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.