At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

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.

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

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

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.

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.