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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.