You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

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.

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.

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.

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

Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.