Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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.

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.